You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery;'
but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.
If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.
'It was also said, 'Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,'
but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.
'Again you have heard that it was said to them of old time, 'You shall not make false vows, but shall perform to the Lord your vows,'
but I tell you, don't swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God;
nor by the earth, for it is the footstool of his feet; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.
Neither shall you swear by your head, for you can't make one hair white or black.
But let your 'Yes' be 'Yes' and your 'No' be 'No.' Whatever is more than these is of the evil one.
'You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.'*
But I tell you, don't resist him who is evil; but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.
If anyone sues you to take away your coat, let him have your cloak also.
Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two.
Give to him who asks you, and don't turn away him who desires to borrow from you.
'You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor,* and hate your enemy.*'
But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,
that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven.

1:1The
words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth
in the land of Benjamin: 1:2to whom the word of Jehovah came in
the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year
of his reign. 1:3It came also in the days of Jehoiakim
the son of Josiah, king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of
Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, unto the carrying away of
Jerusalem captive in the fifth month. 1:4Now the word of Jehovah came unto me,
saying, 1:5Before I formed thee in the belly I
knew thee, and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee;
I have appointed thee a prophet unto the nations. 1:6Then said I, Ah,
Lord Jehovah! behold, I know not how to speak; for I am a child. 1:7But Jehovah said
unto me, Say not, I am a child; for to whomsoever I shall send thee thou
shalt go, and whatsoever I shall command thee thou shalt speak. 1:8Be not afraid
because of them; for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith Jehovah. 1:9Then Jehovah put
forth his hand, and touched my mouth; and Jehovah said unto me, Behold, I
have put my words in thy mouth: 1:10see, I have this day set thee over
the nations and over the kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down and to
destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant. 1:11Moreover the
word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I
said, I see a rod of an almond-tree. 1:12Then said Jehovah unto me, Thou hast
well seen: for I watch over my word to perform it. 1:13And the word of
Jehovah came unto me the second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said,
I see a boiling caldron; and the face thereof is from the north. 1:14Then Jehovah
said unto me, Out of the north evil shall break forth upon all the
inhabitants of the land. 1:15For, lo, I will call all the families
of the kingdoms of the north, saith Jehovah; and they shall come, and they
shall set every one his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem,
and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities
of Judah. 1:16And I will utter my judgments against
them touching all their wickedness, in that they have forsaken me, and
have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own
hands. 1:17Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and
arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at
them, lest I dismay thee before them. 1:18For, behold, I have made thee this
day a fortified city, and an iron pillar, and brazen walls, against the
whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof,
against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land. 1:19And they shall
fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with
thee, saith Jehovah, to deliver thee.

2:1And the
word of Jehovah came to me, saying, 2:2Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem,
saying, Thus saith Jehovah, I remember for thee the kindness of thy youth,
the love of thine espousals; how thou wentest after me in the wilderness,
in a land that was not sown. 2:3Israel was holiness unto
Jehovah, the first-fruits of his increase: all that devour him shall be
held guilty; evil shall come upon them, saith Jehovah. 2:4Hear ye the word
of Jehovah, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:
2:5thus saith
Jehovah, What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they are
gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain? 2:6Neither said
they, Where is Jehovah that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that
led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits,
through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that
none passed through, and where no man dwelt? 2:7And I brought you into a plentiful
land, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye
entered, ye defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination. 2:8The priests said
not, Where is Jehovah? and they that handle the law knew me not: the
rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal,
and walked after things that do not profit. 2:9Wherefore I will yet contend with you,
saith Jehovah, and with your children's children will I contend. 2:10For pass over
to the isles of Kittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider
diligently; and see if there hath been such a thing. 2:11Hath a nation
changed its gods, which yet are no gods? but my people have changed
their glory for that which doth not profit. 2:12Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this,
and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith Jehovah. 2:13For my people
have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living
waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no
water. 2:14Is
Israel a servant? is he a home-born slave? why is he become a prey?
2:15The young
lions have roared upon him, and yelled; and they have made his land waste:
his cities are burned up, without inhabitant. 2:16The children also of Memphis and
Tahpanhes have broken the crown of thy head. 2:17Hast thou not procured this unto
thyself, in that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, when he led thee by
the way? 2:18And now what hast thou to do in the
way to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? or what hast thou to do
in the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River? 2:19Thine own
wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee:
know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that thou
hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the
Lord, Jehovah of hosts. 2:20For of old time I have broken thy
yoke, and burst thy bonds; and thou saidst, I will not serve; for upon
every high hill and under every green tree thou didst bow thyself, playing
the harlot. 2:21Yet I had planted thee a noble vine,
wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate branches
of a foreign vine unto me? 2:22For though thou wash thee with lye,
and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the
Lord Jehovah. 2:23How canst thou say, I am not defiled,
I have not gone after the Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what
thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
2:24a wild
ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind in her desire; in
her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary
themselves; in her month they shall find her. 2:25Withhold thy foot from being unshod,
and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, It is in vain; no, for I have
loved strangers, and after them will I go. 2:26As the thief is ashamed when he is
found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their
princes, and their priests, and their prophets; 2:27who say to a
stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for
they have turned their back unto me, and not their face; but in the time
of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us. 2:28But where are
thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee
in the time of thy trouble: for according to the number of thy cities are
thy gods, O Judah. 2:29Wherefore will ye contend with me? ye
all have transgressed against me, saith Jehovah. 2:30In vain have I
smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath
devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion. 2:31O generation,
see ye the word of Jehovah. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? or a
land of thick darkness? wherefore say my people, We are broken loose; we
will come no more unto thee? 2:32Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or
a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
2:33How
trimmest thou thy way to seek love! therefore even the wicked women hast
thou taught thy ways. 2:34Also in thy skirts is found the blood
of the souls of the innocent poor: thou didst not find them breaking in;
but it is because of all these things. 2:35Yet thou saidst, I am innocent;
surely his anger is turned away from me. Behold, I will enter into
judgment with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned. 2:36Why gaddest
thou about so much to change thy way? thou shalt be ashamed of Egypt also,
as thou wast ashamed of Assyria. 2:37From thence also shalt thou go forth,
with thy hands upon thy head: for Jehovah hath rejected those in whom thou
trustest, and thou shalt not prosper with them.

3:1They
say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another
man's, will he return unto her again? will not that land be greatly
polluted? But thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return
again to me, saith Jehovah. 3:2Lift up thine eyes unto the bare
heights, and see; where hast thou not been lain with? By the ways hast
thou sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted
the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness. 3:3Therefore the
showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; yet thou
hast a harlot's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed. 3:4Wilt thou not
from this time cry unto me, My Father, thou art the guide of my youth?
3:5Will he
retain his anger for ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, thou
hast spoken and hast done evil things, and hast had thy way. 3:6Moreover Jehovah
said unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which
backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and
under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot. 3:7And I said after
she had done all these things, She will return unto me; but she returned
not: and her treacherous sister Judah saw it. 3:8And I saw, when, for this very cause
that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and
given her a bill of divorcement, yet treacherous Judah her sister feared
not; but she also went and played the harlot. 3:9And it came to pass through the
lightness of her whoredom, that the land was polluted, and she committed
adultery with stones and with stocks. 3:10And yet for all this her treacherous
sister Judah hath not returned unto me with her whole heart, but
feignedly, saith Jehovah. 3:11And Jehovah said unto me, Backsliding
Israel hath showed herself more righteous than treacherous Judah. 3:12Go, and
proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding
Israel, saith Jehovah; I will not look in anger upon you; for I am
merciful, saith Jehovah, I will not keep anger for ever. 3:13Only
acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against Jehovah
thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green
tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith Jehovah. 3:14Return, O
backsliding children, saith Jehovah; for I am a husband unto you: and I
will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to
Zion: 3:15and
I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who shall feed you with
knowledge and understanding. 3:16And it shall come to pass, when ye
are multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith Jehovah,
they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of Jehovah; neither shall
it come to mind; neither shall they remember it; neither shall they miss
it; neither shall it be made any more. 3:17At that time they shall call
Jerusalem the throne of Jehovah; and all the nations shall be gathered
unto it, to the name of Jehovah, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any
more after the stubbornness of their evil heart. 3:18In those days
the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall
come together out of the land of the north to the land that I gave for an
inheritance unto your fathers. 3:19But I said, How I will put thee among
the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the
hosts of the nations! and I said, Ye shall call me My Father, and shall
not turn away from following me. 3:20Surely as a wife treacherously
departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O
house of Israel, saith Jehovah. 3:21A voice is heard upon the bare
heights, the weeping and the supplications of the children of
Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Jehovah
their God. 3:22Return, ye backsliding children, I
will heal your backslidings. Behold, we are come unto thee; for thou art
Jehovah our God. 3:23Truly in vain is the help that is
looked for from the hills, the tumult on the mountains: truly in
Jehovah our God is the salvation of Israel. 3:24But the shameful thing hath devoured
the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds,
their sons and their daughters. 3:25Let us lie down in our shame, and let
our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Jehovah our God, we and
our fathers, from our youth even unto this day; and we have not obeyed the
voice of Jehovah our God.

4:1If thou
wilt return, O Israel, saith Jehovah, if thou wilt return unto me, and if
thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight; then shalt thou not
be removed; 4:2and thou shalt swear, As Jehovah
liveth, in truth, in justice, and in righteousness; and the nations shall
bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory. 4:3For thus saith
Jehovah to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground,
and sow not among thorns. 4:4Circumcise yourselves to Jehovah, and
take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of
Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can
quench it, because of the evil of your doings. 4:5Declare ye in Judah, and publish in
Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry aloud and say,
Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities. 4:6Set up a
standard toward Zion: flee for safety, stay not; for I will bring evil
from the north, and a great destruction. 4:7A lion is gone up from his thicket,
and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his
place, to make thy land desolate, that thy cities be laid waste, without
inhabitant. 4:8For this gird you with sackcloth,
lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Jehovah is not turned back from
us. 4:9And it
shall come to pass at that day, saith Jehovah, that the heart of the king
shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be
astonished, and the prophets shall wonder. 4:10Then said I, Ah, Lord Jehovah! surely
thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall
have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the life. 4:11At that time
shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A hot wind from the bare
heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow,
nor to cleanse; 4:12a full wind from these shall come for
me: now will I also utter judgments against them. 4:13Behold, he
shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as the
whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are
ruined. 4:14O
Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How
long shall thine evil thoughts lodge within thee? 4:15For a voice
declareth from Dan, and publisheth evil from the hills of Ephraim: 4:16make ye mention
to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, that watchers
come from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of
Judah. 4:17As
keepers of a field are they against her round about, because she hath been
rebellious against me, saith Jehovah. 4:18Thy way and thy doings have procured
these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness; for it is bitter, for it
reacheth unto thy heart. 4:19My anguish, my anguish! I am pained
at my very heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I cannot hold my peace;
because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of
war. 4:20Destruction upon destruction is
cried; for the whole land is laid waste: suddenly are my tents destroyed,
and my curtains in a moment. 4:21How long shall I see the standard,
and hear the sound of the trumpet? 4:22For my people are foolish, they know
me not; they are sottish children, and they have no understanding; they
are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. 4:23I beheld the
earth, and, lo, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no
light. 4:24I
beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved to
and fro. 4:25I beheld, and, lo, there was no man,
and all the birds of the heavens were fled. 4:26I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful field
was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the
presence of Jehovah, and before his fierce anger. 4:27For thus saith
Jehovah, The whole land shall be a desolation; yet will I not make a full
end. 4:28For
this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have
spoken it, I have purposed it, and I have not repented, neither will I
turn back from it. 4:29Every city fleeth for the noise of
the horsemen and bowmen; they go into the thickets, and climb up upon the
rocks: every city is forsaken, and not a man dwelleth therein. 4:30And thou, when
thou art made desolate, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself
with scarlet, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou
enlargest thine eyes with paint, in vain dost thou make thyself fair;
thy lovers despise thee, they seek thy life. 4:31For I have
heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her that
bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that
gaspeth for breath, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me
now! for my soul fainteth before the murderers.

5:1Run ye
to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and
seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any
that doeth justly, that seeketh truth; and I will pardon her. 5:2And though they
say, As Jehovah liveth; surely they swear falsely. 5:3O Jehovah, do
not thine eyes look upon truth? thou hast stricken them, but they were not
grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive
correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have
refused to return. 5:4Then I said, Surely these are poor;
they are foolish; for they know not the way of Jehovah, nor the law of
their God: 5:5I will get me unto the great men, and
will speak unto them; for they know the way of Jehovah, and the law of
their God. But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the
bonds. 5:6Wherefore a lion out of the forest
shall slay them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard
shall watch against their cities; every one that goeth out thence shall be
torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, and their
backslidings are increased. 5:7How can I pardon thee? thy children
have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them
to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops
at the harlots' houses. 5:8They were as fed horses roaming at
large; every one neighed after his neighbor's wife. 5:9Shall I not
visit for these things? saith Jehovah; and shall not my soul be avenged on
such a nation as this? 5:10Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy;
but make not a full end: take away her branches; for they are not
Jehovah's. 5:11For the house of Israel and the house
of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith Jehovah. 5:12They have
denied Jehovah, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us;
neither shall we see sword nor famine: 5:13and the prophets shall become wind,
and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them. 5:14Wherefore thus
saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I
will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall
devour them. 5:15Lo, I will bring a nation upon you
from far, O house of Israel, saith Jehovah: it is a mighty nation, it is
an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither
understandest what they say. 5:16Their quiver is an open sepulchre,
they are all mighty men. 5:17And they shall eat up thy harvest,
and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat; they
shall eat up thy flocks and thy herds; they shall eat up thy vines and thy
fig-trees; they shall beat down thy fortified cities, wherein thou
trustest, with the sword. 5:18But even in those days, saith
Jehovah, I will not make a full end with you. 5:19And it shall come to pass, when ye
shall say, Wherefore hath Jehovah our God done all these things unto us?
then shalt thou say unto them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served
foreign gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is
not yours. 5:20Declare ye this in the house of
Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying, 5:21Hear now this, O foolish people, and
without understanding; that have eyes, and see not; that have ears, and
hear not: 5:22Fear ye not me? saith Jehovah: will
ye not tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of
the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it? and though the
waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar,
yet can they not pass over it. 5:23But this people hath a revolting and
a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone. 5:24Neither say
they in their heart, Let us now fear Jehovah our God, that giveth rain,
both the former and the latter, in its season; that preserveth unto us the
appointed weeks of the harvest. 5:25Your iniquities have turned away
these things, and your sins have withholden good from you. 5:26For among my
people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set
a trap, they catch men. 5:27As a cage is full of birds, so are
their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxed
rich. 5:28They are waxed fat, they shine: yea,
they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they plead not the cause, the cause
of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and the right of the needy do
they not judge. 5:29Shall I not visit for these things?
saith Jehovah; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
5:30A
wonderful and horrible thing is come to pass in the land: 5:31the prophets
prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people
love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?

6:1Flee
for safety, ye children of Benjamin, out of the midst of Jerusalem, and
blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise up a signal on Beth-haccherem; for
evil looketh forth from the north, and a great destruction. 6:2The comely and
delicate one, the daughter of Zion, will I cut off. 6:3Shepherds with
their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her
round about; they shall feed every one in his place. 6:4Prepare ye war
against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day
declineth, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out. 6:5Arise, and let
us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces. 6:6For thus hath
Jehovah of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast up a mound against
Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the
midst of her. 6:7As a well casteth forth its waters, so
she casteth forth her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in
her; before me continually is sickness and wounds. 6:8Be thou
instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from thee; lest I make
thee a desolation, a land not inhabited. 6:9Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, They
shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn again thy
hand as a grape-gatherer into the baskets. 6:10To whom shall I speak and testify,
that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot
hearken: behold, the word of Jehovah is become unto them a reproach; they
have no delight in it. 6:11Therefore I am full of the wrath of
Jehovah; I am weary with holding in: pour it out upon the children in the
street, and upon the assembly of young men together; for even the husband
with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.
6:12And their
houses shall be turned unto others, their fields and their wives together;
for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith
Jehovah. 6:13For from the least of them even unto
the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the
prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely. 6:14They have
healed also the hurt of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when
there is no peace. 6:15Were they ashamed when they had
committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could
they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall; at the time
that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith Jehovah. 6:16Thus saith
Jehovah, Stand ye in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is
the good way; and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls: but
they said, We will not walk therein. 6:17And I set watchmen over you,
saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet; but they said, We will
not hearken. 6:18Therefore hear, ye nations, and know,
O congregation, what is among them. 6:19Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring
evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have
not hearkened unto my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.
6:20To what
purpose cometh there to me frankincense from Sheba, and the sweet cane
from a far country? your burnt-offerings are not acceptable, nor your
sacrifices pleasing unto me. 6:21Therefore thus saith Jehovah, Behold,
I will lay stumbling-blocks before this people; and the fathers and the
sons together shall stumble against them; the neighbor and his friend
shall perish. 6:22Thus saith Jehovah, Behold, a people
cometh from the north country; and a great nation shall be stirred up from
the uttermost parts of the earth. 6:23They lay hold on bow and spear; they
are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea, and they
ride upon horses, every one set in array, as a man to the battle, against
thee, O daughter of Zion. 6:24We have heard the report thereof; our
hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pangs as of a
woman in travail. 6:25Go not forth into the field, nor walk
by the way; for the sword of the enemy, and terror, are on every
side. 6:26O
daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in
ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation;
for the destroyer shall suddenly come upon us. 6:27I have made thee a trier and a
fortress among my people; that thou mayest know and try their way. 6:28They are all
grievous revolters, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron:
they all of them deal corruptly. 6:29The bellows blow fiercely; the lead
is consumed of the fire: in vain do they go on refining; for the wicked
are not plucked away. 6:30Refuse silver shall men them, because
Jehovah hath rejected them.

7:1The
word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying, 7:2Stand in the
gate of Jehovah's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the
word of Jehovah, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship
Jehovah. 7:3Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God
of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell
in this place. 7:4Trust ye not in lying words, saying,
The temple of Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah, are
these. 7:5For
if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye thoroughly execute
justice between a man and his neighbor; 7:6if ye oppress not the sojourner, the
fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place,
neither walk after other gods to your own hurt: 7:7then will I
cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers,
from of old even for evermore. 7:8Behold, ye trust in lying words, that
cannot profit. 7:9Will ye steal, murder, and commit
adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after
other gods that ye have not known, 7:10and come and stand before me in this
house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered; that ye may
do all these abominations? 7:11Is this house, which is called by my
name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen
it, saith Jehovah. 7:12But go ye now unto my place which was
in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I
did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel. 7:13And now,
because ye have done all these works, saith Jehovah, and I spake unto you,
rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye
answered not: 7:14therefore will I do unto the house
which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I
gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh. 7:15And I will cast
you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole
seed of Ephraim. 7:16Therefore pray not thou for this
people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession
to me; for I will not hear thee. 7:17Seest thou not what they do in the
cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? 7:18The children
gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the
dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out
drink-offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger. 7:19Do they provoke
me to anger? saith Jehovah; do they not provoke themselves,
to the confusion of their own faces? 7:20Therefore thus saith the Lord
Jehovah: Behold, mine anger and my wrath shall be poured out upon this
place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon
the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
7:21Thus
saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt-offerings unto
your sacrifices, and eat ye flesh. 7:22For I spake not unto your fathers,
nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of
Egypt, concerning burnt-offerings or sacrifices: 7:23but this thing
I commanded them, saying, Hearken unto my voice, and I will be your God,
and ye shall be my people; and walk ye in all the way that I command you,
that it may be well with you. 7:24But they hearkened not, nor inclined
their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the
stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
7:25Since the
day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day, I
have sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and
sending them: 7:26yet they hearkened not unto me, nor
inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff: they did worse than their
fathers. 7:27And thou shalt speak all these words
unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto
them; but they will not answer thee. 7:28And thou shalt say unto them, This is
the nation that hath not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah their God, nor
received instruction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
7:29Cut off
thy hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation
on the bare heights; for Jehovah hath rejected and forsaken the generation
of his wrath. 7:30For the children of Judah have done
that which is evil in my sight, saith Jehovah: they have set their
abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it. 7:31And they have
built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of
Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I
commanded not, neither came it into my mind. 7:32Therefore, behold, the days come,
saith Jehovah, that it shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of
the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter: for they shall bury in
Topheth, till there be no place to bury. 7:33And the dead
bodies of this people shall be food for the birds of the heavens, and for
the beasts of the earth; and none shall frighten them away. 7:34Then will I
cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of
Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the
bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land shall become a waste.

8:1At that
time, saith Jehovah, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah,
and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones
of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of
their graves; 8:2and they shall spread them before the
sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, which they have loved, and
which they have served, and after which they have walked, and which they
have sought, and which they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered,
nor be buried, they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth. 8:3And death shall
be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil
family, that remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith
Jehovah of hosts. 8:4Moreover thou shalt say unto them,
Thus saith Jehovah: Shall men fall, and not rise up again? Shall one turn
away, and not return? 8:5Why then is this people of Jerusalem
slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they
refuse to return. 8:6I hearkened and heard, but they spake
not aright: no man repenteth him of his wickedness, saying, What have I
done? every one turneth to his course, as a horse that rusheth headlong in
the battle. 8:7Yea, the stork in the heavens knoweth
her appointed times; and the turtle-dove and the swallow and the crane
observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the law of
Jehovah. 8:8How do ye say, We are wise, and the
law of Jehovah is with us? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes hath
wrought falsely. 8:9The wise men are put to shame, they
are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of Jehovah; and
what manner of wisdom is in them? 8:10Therefore will I give their wives
unto others, and their fields to them that shall possess them: for every
one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness; from
the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely. 8:11And they have
healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace,
peace; when there is no peace. 8:12Were they ashamed when they had
committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could
they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall; in the time of
their visitation they shall be cast down, saith Jehovah. 8:13I will utterly
consume them, saith Jehovah: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor
figs on the fig-tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that
I have given them shall pass away from them. 8:14Why do we sit still? assemble
yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be
silent there; for Jehovah our God hath put us to silence, and given us
water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Jehovah. 8:15We looked for
peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and, behold,
dismay! 8:16The snorting of his horses is heard
from Dan: at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones the whole land
trembleth; for they are come, and have devoured the land and all that is
in it; the city and those that dwell therein. 8:17For, behold, I will send serpents,
adders, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you,
saith Jehovah. 8:18Oh that I could comfort myself
against sorrow! my heart is faint within me. 8:19Behold, the voice of the cry of the
daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: is not Jehovah in
Zion? is not her King in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with
their graven images, and with foreign vanities? 8:20The harvest is
past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. 8:21For the hurt of
the daughter of my people am I hurt: I mourn; dismay hath taken hold on
me. 8:22Is
there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? why then is not the
health of the daughter of my people recovered?

9:1Oh that
my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep
day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! 9:2Oh that I had in
the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my
people, and go from them! for they are all adulterers, an assembly of
treacherous men. 9:3And they bend their tongue, as it
were their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land,
but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not
me, saith Jehovah. 9:4Take ye heed every one of his
neighbor, and trust ye not in any brother; for every brother will utterly
supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders. 9:5And they will
deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have
taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit
iniquity. 9:6Thy habitation is in the midst of
deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith Jehovah. 9:7Therefore thus
saith Jehovah of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how
else should I do, because of the daughter of my people? 9:8Their tongue is
a deadly arrow; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbor
with his mouth, but in his heart he layeth wait for him. 9:9Shall I not
visit them for these things? saith Jehovah; shall not my soul be avenged
on such a nation as this? 9:10For the mountains will I take up a
weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation,
because they are burned up, so that none passeth through; neither can men
hear the voice of the cattle; both the birds of the heavens and the beasts
are fled, they are gone. 9:11And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a
dwelling-place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a
desolation, without inhabitant. 9:12Who is the wise man, that may
understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of Jehovah hath
spoken, that he may declare it? wherefore is the land perished and burned
up like a wilderness, so that none passeth through? 9:13And Jehovah
saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have
not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein, 9:14but have walked after the
stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baalim, which their fathers
taught them; 9:15therefore thus saith Jehovah of
hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with
wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink. 9:16I will scatter
them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have
known; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them.
9:17Thus
saith Jehovah of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that
they may come; and send for the skilful women, that they may come: 9:18and let them
make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with
tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters. 9:19For a voice of wailing is heard out
of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have
forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings. 9:20Yet hear the
word of Jehovah, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his
mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbor
lamentation. 9:21For death is come up into our
windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from
without, and the young men from the streets. 9:22Speak, Thus
saith Jehovah, The dead bodies of men shall fall as dung upon the open
field, and as the handful after the harvestman; and none shall gather
them. 9:23Thus saith Jehovah, Let not the wise
man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might,
let not the rich man glory in his riches; 9:24but let him that glorieth glory in
this, that he hath understanding, and knoweth me, that I am Jehovah who
exerciseth lovingkindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth: for
in these things I delight, saith Jehovah. 9:25Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah,
that I will punish all them that are circumcised in their
uncircumcision: 9:26Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the
children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that have the corners of their
hair cut off, that dwell in the wilderness; for all the nations are
uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.

10:1Hear
ye the word which Jehovah speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: 10:2thus saith
Jehovah, Learn not the way of the nations, and be not dismayed at the
signs of heaven; for the nations are dismayed at them. 10:3For the customs
of the peoples are vanity; for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the
work of the hands of the workman with the axe. 10:4They deck it with silver and with
gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. 10:5They are like a
palm-tree, of turned work, and speak not: they must needs be borne,
because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil,
neither is it in them to do good. 10:6There is none like unto thee, O
Jehovah; thou art great, and thy name is great in might. 10:7Who should not
fear thee, O King of the nations? for to thee doth it appertain; forasmuch
as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate,
there is none like unto thee. 10:8But they are together brutish and
foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock. 10:9There is silver
beaten into plates, which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz,
the work of the artificer and of the hands of the goldsmith; blue and
purple for their clothing; they are all the work of skilful men. 10:10But Jehovah is
the true God; he is the living God, and an everlasting King: at his wrath
the earth trembleth, and the nations are not able to abide his
indignation. 10:11Thus shall ye say unto them, The
gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from
the earth, and from under the heavens. 10:12He hath made the earth by his power,
he hath established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding hath
he stretched out the heavens: 10:13when he uttereth his voice, there is
a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapors to ascend
from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain, and
bringeth forth the wind out of his treasuries. 10:14Every man is become brutish and
is without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his graven
image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
10:15They are
vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall
perish. 10:16The portion of Jacob is not like
these; for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his
inheritance: Jehovah of hosts is his name. 10:17Gather up thy wares out of the land,
O thou that abidest in the siege. 10:18For thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I
will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and will distress
them, that they may feel it. 10:19Woe is me because of my hurt! my
wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is my grief, and I must
bear it. 10:20My tent is destroyed, and all my
cords are broken: my children are gone forth from me, and they are not:
there is none to spread my tent any more, and to set up my curtains. 10:21For the
shepherds are become brutish, and have not inquired of Jehovah: therefore
they have not prospered, and all their flocks are scattered. 10:22The voice of
tidings, behold, it cometh, and a great commotion out of the north
country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling-place of
jackals. 10:23O Jehovah, I know that the way of
man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
10:24O
Jehovah, correct me, but in measure: not in thine anger, lest thou bring
me to nothing. 10:25Pour out thy wrath upon the nations
that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for
they have devoured Jacob, yea, they have devoured him and consumed him,
and have laid waste his habitation.

11:1The
word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying, 11:2Hear ye the
words of this covenant, and speak unto the men of Judah, and to the
inhabitants of Jerusalem; 11:3and say thou unto them, Thus saith
Jehovah, the God of Israel: Cursed be the man that heareth not the words
of this covenant, 11:4which I commanded your fathers in the
day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron
furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I
command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God; 11:5that I may
establish the oath which I sware unto your fathers, to give them a land
flowing with milk and honey, as at this day. Then answered I, and said,
Amen, O Jehovah. 11:6And Jehovah said unto me, Proclaim
all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem,
saying, Hear ye the words of this covenant, and do them. 11:7For I earnestly
protested unto your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the
land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying,
Obey my voice. 11:8Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined
their ear, but walked every one in the stubbornness of their evil heart:
therefore I brought upon them all the words of this covenant, which I
commanded them to do, but they did them not. 11:9And Jehovah said unto me, A
conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of
Jerusalem. 11:10They are turned back to the
iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words; and they
are gone after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house
of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers. 11:11Therefore thus
saith Jehovah, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not
be able to escape; and they shall cry unto me, but I will not hearken unto
them. 11:12Then shall the cities of Judah and
the inhabitants of Jerusalem go and cry unto the gods unto which they
offer incense: but they will not save them at all in the time of their
trouble. 11:13For according to the number of thy
cities are thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets
of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to the shameful thing, even altars to
burn incense unto Baal. 11:14Therefore pray not thou for this
people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them; for I will not hear them
in the time that they cry unto me because of their trouble. 11:15What hath my
beloved to do in my house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness with
many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then
thou rejoicest. 11:16Jehovah called thy name, A green
olive-tree, fair with goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he
hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken. 11:17For Jehovah of
hosts, who planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee, because of the
evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have
wrought for themselves in provoking me to anger by offering incense unto
Baal. 11:18And Jehovah gave me knowledge of it,
and I knew it: then thou showedst me their doings. 11:19But I was like
a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had
devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with
the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living,
that his name may be no more remembered. 11:20But, O Jehovah of hosts, who judgest
righteously, who triest the heart and the mind, I shall see thy vengeance
on them; for unto thee have I revealed my cause. 11:21Therefore thus
saith Jehovah concerning the men of Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying,
Thou shalt not prophesy in the name of Jehovah, that thou die not by our
hand; 11:22therefore thus saith Jehovah of
hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword;
their sons and their daughters shall die by famine; 11:23and there
shall be no remnant unto them: for I will bring evil upon the men of
Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.

12:1Righteous art thou, O Jehovah, when I
contend with thee; yet would I reason the cause with thee: wherefore doth
the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they at ease that deal
very treacherously? 12:2Thou hast planted them, yea, they
have taken root; they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in
their mouth, and far from their heart. 12:3But thou, O Jehovah, knowest me; thou
seest me, and triest my heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for
the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter. 12:4How long shall
the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? for the
wickedness of them that dwell therein, the beasts are consumed, and the
birds; because they said, He shall not see our latter end. 12:5If thou hast
run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou
contend with horses? and though in a land of peace thou art secure, yet
how wilt thou do in the pride of the Jordan? 12:6For even thy brethren, and the house
of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; even they
have cried aloud after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair
words unto thee. 12:7I have forsaken my house, I have cast
off my heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand
of her enemies. 12:8My heritage is become unto me as a
lion in the forest: she hath uttered her voice against me; therefore I
have hated her. 12:9Is my heritage unto me as a speckled
bird of prey? are the birds of prey against her round about? go ye,
assemble all the beasts of the field, bring them to devour. 12:10Many shepherds
have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they
have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. 12:11They have made
it a desolation; it mourneth unto me, being desolate; the whole land is
made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart. 12:12Destroyers are
come upon all the bare heights in the wilderness; for the sword of Jehovah
devoureth from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land:
no flesh hath peace. 12:13They have sown wheat, and have
reaped thorns; they have put themselves to pain, and profit nothing: and
ye shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce anger of
Jehovah. 12:14Thus saith Jehovah against all mine
evil neighbors, that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people
Israel to inherit: behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and
will pluck up the house of Judah from among them. 12:15And it shall
come to pass, after that I have plucked them up, I will return and have
compassion on them; and I will bring them again, every man to his
heritage, and every man to his land. 12:16And it shall come to pass, if they
will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, As
Jehovah liveth; even as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall
they be built up in the midst of my people. 12:17But if they will not hear, then will
I pluck up that nation, plucking up and destroying it, saith Jehovah.

13:1Thus
saith Jehovah unto me, Go, and buy thee a linen girdle, and put it upon
thy loins, and put it not in water. 13:2So I bought a girdle according to the
word of Jehovah, and put it upon my loins. 13:3And the word of Jehovah came unto me
the second time, saying, 13:4Take the girdle that thou hast
bought, which is upon thy loins, and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide
it there in a cleft of the rock. 13:5So I went, and hid it by the
Euphrates, as Jehovah commanded me. 13:6And it came to pass after many days,
that Jehovah said unto me, Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take the girdle
from thence, which I commanded thee to hide there. 13:7Then I went to
the Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had
hid it; and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing.
13:8Then the
word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, 13:9Thus saith Jehovah, After this manner
will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem. 13:10This evil
people, that refuse to hear my words, that walk in the stubbornness of
their heart, and are gone after other gods to serve them, and to worship
them, shall even be as this girdle, which is profitable for nothing. 13:11For as the
girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave unto me
the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saith Jehovah;
that they may be unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise,
and for a glory: but they would not hear. 13:12Therefore thou shalt speak unto them
this word: Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Every bottle shall be
filled with wine: and they shall say unto thee, Do we not certainly know
that every bottle shall be filled with wine? 13:13Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus
saith Jehovah, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even
the kings that sit upon David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets,
and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness. 13:14And I will
dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together,
saith Jehovah: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have compassion, that I
should not destroy them. 13:15Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud;
for Jehovah hath spoken. 13:16Give glory to Jehovah your God,
before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark
mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of
death, and make it gross darkness. 13:17But if ye will not hear it, my soul
shall weep in secret for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore,
and run down with tears, because Jehovah's flock is taken captive. 13:18Say thou unto
the king and to the queen-mother, Humble yourselves, sit down; for your
headtires are come down, even the crown of your glory. 13:19The cities of
the South are shut up, and there is none to open them: Judah is carried
away captive, all of it; it is wholly carried away captive. 13:20Lift up your
eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where is the flock that
was given thee, thy beautiful flock? 13:21What wilt thou say, when he shall
set over thee as head those whom thou hast thyself taught to be friends to
thee? shall not sorrows take hold of thee, as of a woman in travail? 13:22And if thou
say in thy heart, Wherefore are these things come upon me? for the
greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts uncovered, and thy heels suffer
violence. 13:23Can the Ethiopian change his skin,
or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to
do evil. 13:24Therefore will I scatter them, as
the stubble that passeth away, by the wind of the wilderness. 13:25This is thy
lot, the portion measured unto thee from me, saith Jehovah; because thou
hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood. 13:26Therefore will I also uncover thy
skirts upon thy face, and thy shame shall appear. 13:27I have seen
thine abominations, even thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness
of thy whoredom, on the hills in the field. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem!
thou wilt not be made clean; how long shall it yet be?

14:1The
word of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought. 14:2Judah mourneth,
and the gates thereof languish, they sit in black upon the ground; and the
cry of Jerusalem is gone up. 14:3And their nobles send their little
ones to the waters: they come to the cisterns, and find no water; they
return with their vessels empty; they are put to shame and confounded, and
cover their heads. 14:4Because of the ground which is
cracked, for that no rain hath been in the land, the plowmen are put to
shame, they cover their heads. 14:5Yea, the hind also in the field
calveth, and forsaketh her young, because there is no grass. 14:6And the wild
asses stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their
eyes fail, because there is no herbage. 14:7Though our iniquities testify against
us, work thou for thy name's sake, O Jehovah; for our backslidings are
many; we have sinned against thee. 14:8O thou hope of Israel, the Saviour
thereof in the time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a sojourner in
the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?
14:9Why
shouldest thou be as a man affrighted, as a mighty man that cannot save?
yet thou, O Jehovah, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy
name; leave us not. 14:10Thus saith Jehovah unto this people,
Even so have they loved to wander; they have not refrained their feet:
therefore Jehovah doth not accept them; now will he remember their
iniquity, and visit their sins. 14:11And Jehovah said unto me, Pray not
for this people for their good. 14:12When they fast, I will not hear
their cry; and when they offer burnt-offering and meal-offering, I will
not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine,
and by the pestilence. 14:13Then said I, Ah, Lord Jehovah!
behold, the prophets say unto them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither
shall ye have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.
14:14Then
Jehovah said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name; I sent them
not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake I unto them: they
prophesy unto you a lying vision, and divination, and a thing of nought,
and the deceit of their own heart. 14:15Therefore thus saith Jehovah
concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet
they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land: By sword and famine
shall those prophets be consumed. 14:16And the people to whom they prophesy
shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and
the sword; and they shall have none to bury them-them, their wives, nor
their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness upon
them. 14:17And thou shalt say this word unto
them, Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not
cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach,
with a very grievous wound. 14:18If I go forth into the field, then,
behold, the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then,
behold, they that are sick with famine! for both the prophet and the
priest go about in the land, and have no knowledge. 14:19Hast thou
utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul loathed Zion? why hast thou smitten
us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came;
and for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay! 14:20We
acknowledge, O Jehovah, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers;
for we have sinned against thee. 14:21Do not abhor us, for thy
name's sake; do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not
thy covenant with us. 14:22Are there any among the vanities of
the nations that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not
thou he, O Jehovah our God? therefore we will wait for thee; for thou hast
made all these things.

15:1Then
said Jehovah unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind
would not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them
go forth. 15:2And it shall come to pass, when they
say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus
saith Jehovah: Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the
sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and
such as are for captivity, to captivity. 15:3And I will appoint over them four
kinds, saith Jehovah: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the
birds of the heavens, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and to
destroy. 15:4And I will cause them to be tossed to
and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh, the son
of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem. 15:5For who will
have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who will bemoan thee? or who will
turn aside to ask of thy welfare? 15:6Thou hast rejected me, saith Jehovah,
thou art gone backward: therefore have I stretched out my hand against
thee, and destroyed thee; I am weary with repenting. 15:7And I have
winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the land; I have bereaved
them of children, I have destroyed my people; they returned not
from their ways. 15:8Their widows are increased to me
above the sand of the seas; I have brought upon them against the mother of
the young men a destroyer at noonday: I have caused anguish and terrors to
fall upon her suddenly. 15:9She that hath borne seven
languisheth; she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it
was yet day; she hath been put to shame and confounded: and the residue of
them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith Jehovah.
15:10Woe is
me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of
contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to
me; yet every one of them doth curse me. 15:11Jehovah said,
Verily I will strengthen thee for good; verily I will cause the enemy to
make supplication unto thee in the time of evil and in the time of
affliction. 15:12Can one break iron, even iron from
the north, and brass? 15:13Thy substance and thy treasures will
I give for a spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all
thy borders. 15:14And I will make them to pass
with thine enemies into a land which thou knowest not; for a fire is
kindled in mine anger, which shall burn upon you. 15:15O Jehovah,
thou knowest; remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors;
take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have
suffered reproach. 15:16Thy words were found, and I did eat
them; and thy words were unto me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart: for
I am called by thy name, O Jehovah, God of hosts. 15:17I sat not in
the assembly of them that make merry, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of
thy hand; for thou hast filled me with indignation. 15:18Why is my pain
perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou
indeed be unto me as a deceitful brook, as waters that fail? 15:19Therefore thus
saith Jehovah, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, that thou
mayest stand before me; and if thou take forth the precious from the vile,
thou shalt be as my mouth: they shall return unto thee, but thou shalt not
return unto them. 15:20And I will make thee unto this
people a fortified brazen wall; and they shall fight against thee, but
they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee to save thee and
to deliver thee, saith Jehovah. 15:21And I will deliver thee out of the
hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.

16:1The
word of Jehovah came also unto me, saying, 16:2Thou shalt not take thee a wife,
neither shalt thou have sons or daughters, in this place. 16:3For thus saith
Jehovah concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in
this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning
their fathers that begat them in this land: 16:4They shall die grievous deaths: they
shall not be lamented, neither shall they be buried; they shall be as dung
upon the face of the ground; and they shall be consumed by the sword, and
by famine; and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the
heavens, and for the beasts of the earth. 16:5For thus saith Jehovah, Enter not
into the house of mourning, neither go to lament, neither bemoan them; for
I have taken away my peace from this people, saith Jehovah, even
lovingkindness and tender mercies. 16:6Both great and small shall die in
this land; they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them,
nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them; 16:7neither shall
men break bread for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead;
neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their
father or for their mother. 16:8And thou shalt not go into the house
of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink. 16:9For thus saith
Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will cause to cease out of
this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the
voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.
16:10And it
shall come to pass, when thou shalt show this people all these words, and
they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath Jehovah pronounced all this great
evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have
committed against Jehovah our God? 16:11Then shalt thou say unto them,
Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith Jehovah, and have walked
after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have
forsaken me, and have not kept my law; 16:12and ye have done evil more than your
fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the stubbornness of his evil
heart, so that ye hearken not unto me: 16:13therefore will I cast you forth out
of this land into the land that ye have not known, neither ye nor your
fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; for I will
show you no favor. 16:14Therefore, behold, the days come,
saith Jehovah, that it shall no more be said, As Jehovah liveth, that
brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; 16:15but, As
Jehovah liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of
the north, and from all the countries whither he had driven them. And I
will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers.
16:16Behold,
I will send for many fishers, saith Jehovah, and they shall fish them up;
and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from
every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.
16:17For mine
eyes are upon all their ways; they are not hid from my face, neither is
their iniquity concealed from mine eyes. 16:18And first I will recompense their
iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the
carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled mine inheritance
with their abominations. 16:19O Jehovah, my strength, and my
stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, unto thee shall the
nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have
inherited nought but lies, even vanity and things wherein there is
no profit. 16:20Shall a man make unto himself gods,
which yet are no gods? 16:21Therefore, behold, I will cause them
to know, this once will I cause them to know my hand and my might; and
they shall know that my name is Jehovah.

17:1The
sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a
diamond: it is graven upon the tablet of their heart, and upon the horns
of your altars; 17:2whilst their children remember their
altars and their Asherim by the green trees upon the high hills. 17:3O my mountain
in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures for a spoil,
and thy high places, because of sin, throughout all thy borders.
17:4And thou,
even of thyself, shalt discontinue from thy heritage that I gave thee; and
I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest
not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger which shall burn for ever.
17:5Thus
saith Jehovah: Cursed is the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh
his arm, and whose heart departeth from Jehovah. 17:6For he shall be
like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh, but
shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not
inhabited. 17:7Blessed is the man that trusteth in
Jehovah, and whose trust Jehovah is. 17:8For he shall be as a tree planted by
the waters, that spreadeth out its roots by the river, and shall not fear
when heat cometh, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in
the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit. 17:9The heart is
deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know
it? 17:10I,
Jehovah, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man
according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings. 17:11As the
partridge that sitteth on eggs which she hath not laid, so is he
that getteth riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall
leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool. 17:12A glorious throne, set on
high from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary. 17:13O Jehovah, the
hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be put to shame. They that
depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken
Jehovah, the fountain of living waters. 17:14Heal me, O Jehovah, and I shall be
healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise. 17:15Behold, they
say unto me, Where is the word of Jehovah? let it come now. 17:16As for me, I
have not hastened from being a shepherd after thee; neither have I desired
the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was before
thy face. 17:17Be not a terror unto me: thou art my
refuge in the day of evil. 17:18Let them be put to shame that
persecute me, but let not me be put to shame; let them be dismayed, but
let not me be dismayed; bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them
with double destruction. 17:19Thus said Jehovah unto me: Go, and
stand in the gate of the children of the people, whereby the kings of
Judah come in, and by which they go out, and in all the gates of
Jerusalem; 17:20and say unto them, Hear ye the word
of Jehovah, ye kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates: 17:21Thus saith Jehovah, Take heed to
yourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the
gates of Jerusalem; 17:22neither carry forth a burden out of
your houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye any work: but hallow ye the
sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers. 17:23But they hearkened not, neither
inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear,
and might not receive instruction. 17:24And it shall come to pass, if ye
diligently hearken unto me, saith Jehovah, to bring in no burden through
the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but to hallow the sabbath day,
to do no work therein; 17:25then shall there enter in by the
gates of this city kings and princes sitting upon the throne of David,
riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of
Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and this city shall remain for
ever. 17:26And they shall come from the cities
of Judah, and from the places round about Jerusalem, and from the land of
Benjamin, and from the lowland, and from the hill-country, and from the
South, bringing burnt-offerings, and sacrifices, and meal-offerings, and
frankincense, and bringing sacrifices of thanksgiving, unto the
house of Jehovah. 17:27But if ye will not hearken unto me
to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden and enter in at the
gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the
gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall
not be quenched.

18:1The
word which came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying, 18:2Arise, and go
down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words.
18:3Then I
went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he was making a work on the
wheels. 18:4And when the vessel that he made of
the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another
vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it. 18:5Then the word
of Jehovah came to me, saying, 18:6O house of Israel, cannot I do with
you as this potter? saith Jehovah. Behold, as the clay in the potter's
hand, so are ye in my hand, O house of Israel. 18:7At what instant I shall speak
concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break
down and to destroy it; 18:8if that nation, concerning which I
have spoken, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I
thought to do unto them. 18:9And at what instant I shall speak
concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;
18:10if they
do that which is evil in my sight, that they obey not my voice, then I
will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them. 18:11Now therefore,
speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,
Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device
against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and amend your
ways and your doings. 18:12But they say, It is in vain; for we
will walk after our own devices, and we will do every one after the
stubbornness of his evil heart. 18:13Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Ask ye
now among the nations, who hath heard such things; the virgin of Israel
hath done a very horrible thing. 18:14Shall the snow of Lebanon fail from
the rock of the field? or shall the cold waters that flow down from
afar be dried up? 18:15For my people have forgotten me,
they have burned incense to false gods; and they have been made to
stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in bypaths, in a way
not cast up; 18:16to make their land an astonishment,
and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be
astonished, and shake his head. 18:17I will scatter them as with an east
wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the
day of their calamity. 18:18Then said they, Come, and let us
devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the
priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come,
and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of
his words. 18:19Give heed to me, O Jehovah, and
hearken to the voice of them that contend with me. 18:20Shall evil be
recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember how
I stood before thee to speak good for them, to turn away thy wrath from
them. 18:21Therefore deliver up their children
to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their
wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death,
and their young men smitten of the sword in battle. 18:22Let a cry be
heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them;
for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet. 18:23Yet, Jehovah,
thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me; forgive not their
iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight; but let them be
overthrown before thee; deal thou with them in the time of thine anger.

19:1Thus
said Jehovah, Go, and buy a potter's earthen bottle, and take of
the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests; 19:2and go forth
unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the gate
Harsith, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee; 19:3and say, Hear
ye the word of Jehovah, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem:
thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring evil
upon this place, which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle. 19:4Because they
have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense
in it unto other gods, that they knew not, they and their fathers and the
kings of Judah; and have filled this place with the blood of innocents,
19:5and have
built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons in the fire for
burnt-offerings unto Baal; which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither
came it into my mind: 19:6therefore, behold, the days come,
saith Jehovah, that this place shall no more be called Topheth, nor The
valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter. 19:7And I will make
void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause
them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of them
that seek their life: and their dead bodies will I give to be food for the
birds of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth. 19:8And I will make
this city an astonishment, and a hissing; every one that passeth thereby
shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof. 19:9And I will
cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their
daughters; and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend, in the
siege and in the distress, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek
their life, shall distress them. 19:10Then shalt thou break the bottle in
the sight of the men that go with thee, 19:11and shalt say unto them, Thus saith
Jehovah of hosts: Even so will I break this people and this city, as one
breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again; and they
shall bury in Topheth, till there be no place to bury. 19:12Thus will I do
unto this place, saith Jehovah, and to the inhabitants thereof, even
making this city as Topheth: 19:13and the houses of Jerusalem, and the
houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, shall be as the place of
Topheth, even all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense
unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink-offerings unto
other gods. 19:14Then came Jeremiah from Topheth,
whither Jehovah had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of
Jehovah's house, and said to all the people: 19:15Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God
of Israel, Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all its towns all
the evil that I have pronounced against it; because they have made their
neck stiff, that they may not hear my words.

20:1Now
Pashhur, the son of Immer the priest, who was chief officer in the house
of Jehovah, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things. 20:2Then Pashhur
smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the
upper gate of Benjamin, which was in the house of Jehovah. 20:3And it came to
pass on the morrow, that Pashhur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks.
Then said Jeremiah unto him, Jehovah hath not called thy name Pashhur, but
Magor-missabib. 20:4For thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I
will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends; and they shall
fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it; and I
will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall
carry them captive to Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword. 20:5Moreover I will
give all the riches of this city, and all the gains thereof, and all the
precious things thereof, yea, all the treasures of the kings of Judah will
I give into the hand of their enemies; and they shall make them a prey,
and take them, and carry them to Babylon. 20:6And thou, Pashhur, and all that dwell
in thy house shall go into captivity; and thou shalt come to Babylon, and
there thou shalt die, and there shalt thou be buried, thou, and all thy
friends, to whom thou hast prophesied falsely. 20:7O Jehovah, thou hast persuaded me,
and I was persuaded; thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am
become a laughing-stock all the day, every one mocketh me. 20:8For as often as
I speak, I cry out; I cry, Violence and destruction! because the word of
Jehovah is made a reproach unto me, and a derision, all the day. 20:9And if I say, I
will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there
is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am
weary with forbearing, and I cannot contain. 20:10For I have
heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will
denounce him, say all my familiar friends, they that watch for my
fall; peradventure he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him,
and we shall take our revenge on him. 20:11But Jehovah is with me as a mighty
one and a terrible: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and
they shall not prevail; they shall be utterly put to shame, because they
have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which shall never
be forgotten. 20:12But, O Jehovah of hosts, that triest
the righteous, that seest the heart and the mind, let me see thy vengeance
on them; for unto thee have I revealed my cause. 20:13Sing unto
Jehovah, praise ye Jehovah; for he hath delivered the soul of the needy
from the hand of evil-doers. 20:14Cursed be the day wherein I was
born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed. 20:15Cursed be the
man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man-child is born unto
thee; making him very glad. 20:16And let that man be as the cities
which Jehovah overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear a cry in the
morning, and shouting at noontime; 20:17because he slew me not from the
womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always
great. 20:18Wherefore came I forth out of the
womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

21:1The
word which came unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, when king Zedekiah sent unto
him Pashhur the son of Malchijah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the
priest, saying, 21:2Inquire, I pray thee, of Jehovah for
us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon maketh war against us: peradventure
Jehovah will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may
go up from us. 21:3Then said Jeremiah unto them, Thus
shall ye say to Zedekiah: 21:4Thus saith Jehovah, the God of
Israel, Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your
hands, wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon, and against the
Chaldeans that besiege you, without the walls; and I will gather them into
the midst of this city. 21:5And I myself will fight against you
with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in
wrath, and in great indignation. 21:6And I will smite the inhabitants of
this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence. 21:7And afterward,
saith Jehovah, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants,
and the people, even such as are left in this city from the pestilence,
from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king
of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those
that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword;
he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy. 21:8And unto this
people thou shalt say, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I set before you the
way of life and the way of death. 21:9He that abideth in this city shall
die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he that
goeth out, and passeth over to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall
live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey. 21:10For I have set
my face upon this city for evil, and not for good, saith Jehovah: it shall
be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with
fire. 21:11And touching the house of the king
of Judah, hear ye the word of Jehovah: 21:12O house of David, thus saith
Jehovah, Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him that is robbed
out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and
burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings. 21:13Behold, I am
against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, and of the rock of the
plain, saith Jehovah; you that say, Who shall come down against us? or who
shall enter into our habitations? 21:14And I will punish you according to
the fruit of your doings, saith Jehovah; and I will kindle a fire in her
forest, and it shall devour all that is round about her.

22:1Thus
said Jehovah: Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there
this word, 22:2And say, Hear the word of Jehovah, O
king of Judah, that sittest upon the throne of David, thou, and thy
servants, and thy people that enter in by these gates. 22:3Thus saith
Jehovah: Execute ye justice and righteousness, and deliver him that is
robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence,
to the sojourner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent
blood in this place. 22:4For if ye do this thing indeed, then
shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting upon the
throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants,
and his people. 22:5But if ye will not hear these words,
I swear by myself, saith Jehovah, that this house shall become a
desolation. 22:6For thus saith Jehovah concerning the
house of the king of Judah: Thou art Gilead unto me, and the head
of Lebanon; yet surely I will make thee a wilderness, and
cities which are not inhabited. 22:7And I will prepare destroyers against
thee, every one with his weapons; and they shall cut down thy choice
cedars, and cast them into the fire. 22:8And many nations shall pass by this
city, and they shall say every man to his neighbor, Wherefore hath Jehovah
done thus unto this great city? 22:9Then they shall answer, Because they
forsook the covenant of Jehovah their God, and worshipped other gods, and
served them. 22:10Weep ye not for the dead, neither
bemoan him; but weep sore for him that goeth away; for he shall return no
more, nor see his native country. 22:11For thus saith Jehovah touching
Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah
his father, and who went forth out of this place: He shall not
return thither any more. 22:12But in the place whither they have
led him captive, there shall he die, and he shall see this land no more.
22:13Woe unto
him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by
injustice; that useth his neighbor's service without wages, and giveth him
not his hire; 22:14that saith, I will build me a wide
house and spacious chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is ceiled
with cedar, and painted with vermilion. 22:15Shalt thou reign, because thou
strivest to excel in cedar? Did not thy father eat and drink, and do
justice and righteousness? then it was well with him. 22:16He judged the
cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Was not this to know me?
saith Jehovah. 22:17But thine eyes and thy heart are not
but for thy covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for
oppression, and for violence, to do it. 22:18Therefore thus saith Jehovah
concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: they shall not
lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! They shall
not lament for him, saying Ah lord! or, Ah his glory! 22:19He shall be
buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of
Jerusalem. 22:20Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift
up thy voice in Bashan, and cry from Abarim; for all thy lovers are
destroyed. 22:21I spake unto thee in thy prosperity;
but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy
youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice. 22:22The wind shall feed all thy
shepherds, and thy lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou
be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness. 22:23O inhabitant
of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied
shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in
travail! 22:24As I live, saith Jehovah, though
Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right
hand, yet would I pluck thee thence; 22:25and I will give thee into the hand
of them that seek thy life, and into the hand of them of whom thou art
afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the
hand of the Chaldeans. 22:26And I will cast thee out, and thy
mother that bare thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and
there shall ye die. 22:27But to the land whereunto their soul
longeth to return, thither shall they not return. 22:28Is this man
Coniah a despised broken vessel? is he a vessel wherein none delighteth?
wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into the land
which they know not? 22:29O earth, earth, earth, hear the word
of Jehovah. 22:30Thus saith Jehovah, Write ye this
man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days; for no more shall
a man of his seed prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling in
Judah.

23:1Woe
unto the shepherds that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith
Jehovah. 23:2Therefore thus saith Jehovah, the God
of Israel, against the shepherds that feed my people: Ye have scattered my
flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them; behold, I will
visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith Jehovah. 23:3And I will
gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries whither I have
driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be
fruitful and multiply. 23:4And I will set up shepherds over
them, who shall feed them; and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed,
neither shall any be lacking, saith Jehovah. 23:5Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah,
that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as
king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the
land. 23:6In
his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely; and this is
his name whereby he shall be called: Jehovah our righteousness. 23:7Therefore,
behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that they shall no more say, As
Jehovah liveth, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of
Egypt; 23:8but, As Jehovah liveth, who brought
up and who led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country,
and from all the countries whither I had driven them. And they shall dwell
in their own land. 23:9Concerning the prophets. My heart
within me is broken, all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like
a man whom wine hath overcome, because of Jehovah, and because of his holy
words. 23:10For the land is full of adulterers;
for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pastures of the wilderness
are dried up. And their course is evil, and their might is not right;
23:11for both
prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their
wickedness, saith Jehovah. 23:12Wherefore their way shall be unto
them as slippery places in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall
therein; for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their
visitation, saith Jehovah. 23:13And I have seen folly in the
prophets of Samaria; they prophesied by Baal, and caused my people Israel
to err. 23:14In the prophets of Jerusalem also I
have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and
they strengthen the hands of evil-doers, so that none doth return from his
wickedness: they are all of them become unto me as Sodom, and the
inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah. 23:15Therefore thus saith Jehovah of
hosts concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and
make them drink the water of gall; for from the prophets of Jerusalem is
ungodliness gone forth into all the land. 23:16Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Hearken
not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they teach you
vanity; they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth
of Jehovah. 23:17They say continually unto them that
despise me, Jehovah hath said, Ye shall have peace; and unto every one
that walketh in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, No evil shall
come upon you. 23:18For who hath stood in the council of
Jehovah, that he should perceive and hear his word? who hath marked my
word, and heard it? 23:19Behold, the tempest of Jehovah,
even his wrath, is gone forth, yea, a whirling tempest: it shall
burst upon the head of the wicked. 23:20The anger of Jehovah shall not
return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the intents of
his heart: in the latter days ye shall understand it perfectly. 23:21I sent not
these prophets, yet they ran: I spake not unto them, yet they prophesied.
23:22But if
they had stood in my council, then had they caused my people to hear my
words, and had turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their
doings. 23:23Am I a God at hand, saith Jehovah,
and not a God afar off? 23:24Can any hide himself in secret
places so that I shall not see him? saith Jehovah. Do not I fill heaven
and earth? saith Jehovah. 23:25I have heard what the prophets have
said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have
dreamed. 23:26How long shall this be in the heart
of the prophets that prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of
their own heart? 23:27that think to cause my people to
forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbor,
as their fathers forgat my name for Baal. 23:28The prophet that hath a dream, let
him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word
faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat? saith Jehovah. 23:29Is not my word
like fire? saith Jehovah; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in
pieces? 23:30Therefore, behold, I am against the
prophets, saith Jehovah, that steal my words every one from his neighbor.
23:31Behold,
I am against the prophets, saith Jehovah, that use their tongues, and say,
He saith. 23:32Behold, I am against them that
prophesy lying dreams, saith Jehovah, and do tell them, and cause my
people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting: yet I sent them
not, nor commanded them; neither do they profit this people at all, saith
Jehovah. 23:33And when this people, or the
prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden of
Jehovah? then shalt thou say unto them, What burden! I will cast you off,
saith Jehovah. 23:34And as for the prophet, and the
priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden of Jehovah, I will even
punish that man and his house. 23:35Thus shall ye say every one to his
neighbor, and every one to his brother, What hath Jehovah answered? and,
What hath Jehovah spoken? 23:36And the burden of Jehovah shall ye
mention no more: for every man's own word shall be his burden; for ye have
perverted the words of the living God, of Jehovah of hosts our God. 23:37Thus shalt
thou say to the prophet, What hath Jehovah answered thee? and, What hath
Jehovah spoken? 23:38But if ye say, The burden of
Jehovah; therefore thus saith Jehovah: Because ye say this word, The
burden of Jehovah, and I have sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The
burden of Jehovah; 23:39therefore, behold, I will utterly
forget you, and I will cast you off, and the city that I gave unto you and
to your fathers, away from my presence: 23:40and I will bring an everlasting
reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.

24:1Jehovah showed me, and, behold, two
baskets of figs set before the temple of Jehovah, after that
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son
of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the craftsmen
and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon. 24:2One basket had
very good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; and the other basket
had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad. 24:3Then said
Jehovah unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good
figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, that cannot be eaten, they are so
bad. 24:4And
the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, 24:5Thus saith Jehovah, the God of
Israel: Like these good figs, so will I regard the captives of Judah, whom
I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for good.
24:6For I
will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this
land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant
them, and not pluck them up. 24:7And I will give them a heart to know
me, that I am Jehovah: and they shall be my people, and I will be their
God; for they shall return unto me with their whole heart. 24:8And as the bad
figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so bad, surely thus saith Jehovah,
So will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the
residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the
land of Egypt, 24:9I will even give them up to be tossed
to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach
and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive
them. 24:10And I will send the sword, the
famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the
land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.

25:1The
word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the
fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah (the same was
the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon,) 25:2which Jeremiah
the prophet spake unto all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants
of Jerusalem, saying: 25:3From the thirteenth year of Josiah
the son of Amon, king of Judah, even unto this day, these three and twenty
years, the word of Jehovah hath come unto me, and I have spoken unto you,
rising up early and speaking; but ye have not hearkened. 25:4And Jehovah
hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising up early and
sending them, (but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear,)
25:5saying,
Return ye now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your
doings, and dwell in the land that Jehovah hath given unto you and to your
fathers, from of old and even for evermore; 25:6and go not after other gods to serve
them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the work of
your hands; and I will do you no hurt. 25:7Yet ye have not hearkened unto me,
saith Jehovah; that ye may provoke me to anger with the work of your hands
to your own hurt. 25:8Therefore thus saith Jehovah of
hosts: Because ye have not heard my words, 25:9behold, I will send and take all the
families of the north, saith Jehovah, and I will send unto
Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them
against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all
these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them
an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations. 25:10Moreover I
will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the
voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the
millstones, and the light of the lamp. 25:11And this whole land shall be a
desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of
Babylon seventy years. 25:12And it shall come to pass, when
seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon,
and that nation, saith Jehovah, for their iniquity, and the land of the
Chaldeans; and I will make it desolate for ever. 25:13And I will
bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even
all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against
all the nations. 25:14For many nations and great kings
shall make bondmen of them, even of them; and I will recompense them
according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands. 25:15For thus saith
Jehovah, the God of Israel, unto me: take this cup of the wine of wrath at
my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.
25:16And they
shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be mad, because of the sword that I
will send among them. 25:17Then took I the cup at Jehovah's
hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom Jehovah had sent me:
25:18to
wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and
the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a
hissing, and a curse, as it is this day; 25:19Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his
servants, and his princes, and all his people; 25:20and all the mingled people, and all
the kings of the land of the Uz, and all the kings of the Philistines, and
Ashkelon, and Gaza, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod; 25:21Edom, and
Moab, and the children of Ammon; 25:22and all the kings of Tyre, and all
the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the isle which is beyond the sea;
25:23Dedan,
and Tema, and Buz, and all that have the corners of their hair cut
off; 25:24and
all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that
dwell in the wilderness; 25:25and all the kings of Zimri, and all
the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes; 25:26and all the
kings of the north, far and near, one with another; and all the kingdoms
of the world, which are upon the face of the earth: and the king of
Sheshach shall drink after them. 25:27And thou shalt say unto them, Thus
saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink ye, and be drunken, and
spew, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send
among you. 25:28And it shall be, if they refuse to
take the cup at thy hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus
saith Jehovah of hosts: Ye shall surely drink. 25:29For, lo, I begin to work evil at the
city which is called by my name; and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye
shall not be unpunished; for I will call for a sword upon all the
inhabitants of the earth, saith Jehovah of hosts. 25:30Therefore
prophesy thou against them all these words, and say unto them, Jehovah
will roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he
will mightily roar against his fold; he will give a shout, as they that
tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth. 25:31A noise shall
come even to the end of the earth; for Jehovah hath a controversy with the
nations; he will enter into judgment with all flesh: as for the wicked, he
will give them to the sword, saith Jehovah. 25:32Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Behold,
evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great tempest shall be
raised up from the uttermost parts of the earth. 25:33And the slain
of Jehovah shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the
other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor
buried; they shall be dung upon the face of the ground. 25:34Wail, ye
shepherds, and cry; and wallow in ashes, ye principal of the flock;
for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are fully come, and
ye shall fall like a goodly vessel. 25:35And the shepherds shall have no way
to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape. 25:36A voice of the
cry of the shepherds, and the wailing of the principal of the flock! for
Jehovah layeth waste their pasture. 25:37And the peaceable folds are brought
to silence because of the fierce anger of Jehovah. 25:38He hath left
his covert, as the lion; for their land is become an astonishment because
of the fierceness of the oppressing sword, and because of his
fierce anger.

26:1In the
beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, came
this word from Jehovah, saying, 26:2Thus saith Jehovah: Stand in the
court of Jehovah's house, and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which
come to worship in Jehovah's house, all the words that I command thee to
speak unto them; diminish not a word. 26:3It may be they will hearken, and turn
every man from his evil way; that I may repent me of the evil which I
purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings. 26:4And thou shalt
say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah: If ye will not hearken to me, to walk
in my law, which I have set before you, 26:5to hearken to the words of my
servants the prophets, whom I send unto you, even rising up early and
sending them, but ye have not hearkened; 26:6then will I make this house like
Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.
26:7And the
priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these
words in the house of Jehovah. 26:8And it came to pass, when Jeremiah
had made an end of speaking all that Jehovah had commanded him to speak
unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people
laid hold on him, saying, Thou shalt surely die. 26:9Why hast thou
prophesied in the name of Jehovah, saying, This house shall be like
Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without inhabitant? And all the
people were gathered unto Jeremiah in the house of Jehovah. 26:10And when the
princes of Judah heard these things, they came up from the king's house
unto the house of Jehovah; and they sat in the entry of the new gate of
Jehovah's house. 26:11Then spake the priests and the
prophets unto the princes and to all the people, saying, This man is
worthy of death; for he hath prophesied against this city, as ye have
heard with your ears. 26:12Then spake Jeremiah unto all the
princes and to all the people, saying, Jehovah sent me to prophesy against
this house and against this city all the words that ye have heard. 26:13Now therefore
amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of Jehovah your God;
and Jehovah will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against
you. 26:14But
as for me, behold, I am in your hand: do with me as is good and right in
your eyes. 26:15Only know ye for certain that, if ye
put me to death, ye will bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon
this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof; for of a truth Jehovah hath
sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears. 26:16Then said the
princes and all the people unto the priests and to the prophets: This man
is not worthy of death; for he hath spoken to us in the name of Jehovah
our God. 26:17Then rose up certain of the elders
of the land, and spake to all the assembly of the people, saying, 26:18Micah the
Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spake
to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Zion
shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the
mountain of the house as the high places of a forest. 26:19Did Hezekiah
king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? did he not fear Jehovah, and
entreat the favor of Jehovah, and Jehovah repented him of the evil which
he had pronounced against them? Thus should we commit great evil against
our own souls. 26:20And there was also a man that
prophesied in the name of Jehovah, Uriah the son of Shemaiah of
Kiriath-jearim; and he prophesied against this city and against this land
according to all the words of Jeremiah: 26:21and when Jehoiakim the king, with
all his mighty-men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought
to put him to death; but when Uriah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and
went into Egypt: 26:22and Jehoiakim the king sent men into
Egypt, namely, Elnathan the son of Achbor, and certain men with
him, into Egypt; 26:23and they fetched forth Uriah out of
Egypt, and brought him unto Jehoiakim the king, who slew him with the
sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people. 26:24But the hand
of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that they should not give
him into the hand of the people to put him to death.

27:1In the
beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, came
this word unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying, 27:2Thus saith Jehovah to me: Make thee
bonds and bars, and put them upon thy neck; 27:3and send them to the king of Edom,
and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to
the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers
that come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah; 27:4and give them a
charge unto their masters, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of
Israel, Thus shall ye say unto your masters: 27:5I have made the earth, the men and
the beasts that are upon the face of the earth, by my great power and by
my outstretched arm; and I give it unto whom it seemeth right unto me.
27:6And now
have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of
Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field also have I given him to
serve him. 27:7And all the nations shall serve him,
and his son, and his son's son, until the time of his own land come: and
then many nations and great kings shall make him their bondman. 27:8And it shall
come to pass, that the nation and the kingdom which will not serve the
same Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck
under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, saith
Jehovah, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence,
until I have consumed them by his hand. 27:9But as for you, hearken ye not to
your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to your
soothsayers, nor to your sorcerers, that speak unto you, saying, Ye shall
not serve the king of Babylon: 27:10for they prophesy a lie unto you, to
remove you far from your land, and that I should drive you out, and ye
should perish. 27:11But the nation that shall bring
their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, that
nation will I let remain in their own land, saith Jehovah; and they
shall till it, and dwell therein. 27:12And I spake to Zedekiah king of
Judah according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the
yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live. 27:13Why will ye
die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the
pestilence, as Jehovah hath spoken concerning the nation that will not
serve the king of Babylon? 27:14And hearken not unto the words of
the prophets that speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of
Babylon; for they prophesy a lie unto you. 27:15For I have not sent them, saith
Jehovah, but they prophesy falsely in my name; that I may drive you out,
and that ye may perish, ye, and the prophets that prophesy unto you. 27:16Also I spake
to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: Hearken
not to the words of your prophets that prophesy unto you, saying, Behold,
the vessels of Jehovah's house shall now shortly be brought again from
Babylon; for they prophesy a lie unto you. 27:17Hearken not unto them; serve the
king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city become a desolation?
27:18But if
they be prophets, and if the word of Jehovah be with them, let them now
make intercession to Jehovah of hosts, that the vessels which are left in
the house of Jehovah, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at
Jerusalem, go not to Babylon. 27:19For thus saith Jehovah of hosts
concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases,
and concerning the residue of the vessels that are left in this city,
27:20which
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took not, when he carried away captive
Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon,
and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem; 27:21yea, thus saith Jehovah of hosts,
the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that are left in the house of
Jehovah, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem: 27:22They shall be
carried to Babylon, and there shall they be, until the day that I visit
them, saith Jehovah; then will I bring them up, and restore them to this
place.

28:1And it
came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king
of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of
Azzur, the prophet, who was of Gibeon, spake unto me in the house of
Jehovah, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,
28:2Thus
speaketh Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the
yoke of the king of Babylon. 28:3Within two full years will I bring
again into this place all the vessels of Jehovah's house, that
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried to
Babylon: 28:4and I will bring again to this place
Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, with all the captives of
Judah, that went to Babylon, saith Jehovah; for I will break the yoke of
the king of Babylon. 28:5Then the prophet Jeremiah said unto
the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests, and in the presence
of all the people that stood in the house of Jehovah, 28:6even the
prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: Jehovah do so; Jehovah perform thy words
which thou hast prophesied, to bring again the vessels of Jehovah's house,
and all them of the captivity, from Babylon unto this place. 28:7Nevertheless
hear thou now this word that I speak in thine ears, and in the ears of all
the people: 28:8The prophets that have been before me
and before thee of old prophesied against many countries, and against
great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence. 28:9The prophet
that prophesieth of peace, when the word of the prophet shall come to
pass, then shall the prophet be known, that Jehovah hath truly sent him.
28:10Then
Hananiah the prophet took the bar from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck,
and brake it. 28:11And Hananiah spake in the presence
of all the people, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: Even so will I break the
yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon within two full years from off the
neck of all the nations. And the prophet Jeremiah went his way. 28:12Then the word
of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah, after that Hananiah the prophet had broken
the bar from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying, 28:13Go, and tell
Hananiah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: Thou hast broken the bars of wood;
but thou hast made in their stead bars of iron. 28:14For thus saith
Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: I have put a yoke of iron upon the
neck of all these nations, that they may served Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon; and they shall serve him: and I have given him the beasts of the
field also. 28:15Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto
Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah: Jehovah hath not sent thee; but
thou makest this people to trust in a lie. 28:16Therefore thus saith Jehovah,
Behold, I will send thee away from off the face of the earth: this year
thou shalt die, because thou hast spoken rebellion against Jehovah. 28:17So Hananiah
the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.

29:1Now
these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from
Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders of the captivity, and to the
priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people, whom Nebuchadnezzar
had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon, 29:2(after that
Jeconiah the king, and the queen-mother, and the eunuchs, and the
princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the craftsmen, and the smiths, were
departed from Jerusalem,) 29:3by the hand of Elasah the son of
Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah
sent unto Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,) saying, 29:4Thus saith
Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all the captivity, whom I have
caused to be carried away captive from Jerusalem unto Babylon: 29:5Build ye
houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
29:6Take ye
wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and
give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters;
and multiply ye there, and be not diminished. 29:7And seek the peace of the city
whither I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray unto
Jehovah for it; for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace. 29:8For thus saith
Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Let not your prophets that are in the
midst of you, and your diviners, deceive you; neither hearken ye to your
dreams which ye cause to be dreamed. 29:9For they prophesy falsely unto you in
my name: I have not sent them, saith Jehovah. 29:10For thus saith Jehovah, After
seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you, and perform
my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. 29:11For I know the
thoughts that I think toward you, saith Jehovah, thoughts of peace, and
not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end. 29:12And ye shall
call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto
you. 29:13And
ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your
heart. 29:14And I will be found of you, saith
Jehovah, and I will turn again your captivity, and I will gather you from
all the nations, and from all the places wither I have driven you, saith
Jehovah; and I will bring you again unto the place whence I caused you to
be carried away captive. 29:15Because ye have said, Jehovah hath
raised us up prophets in Babylon; 29:16thus saith Jehovah concerning the
king that sitteth upon the throne of David, and concerning all the people
that dwell in this city, your brethren that are not gone forth with you
into captivity; 29:17thus saith Jehovah of hosts; Behold,
I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will
make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so bad. 29:18And I will
pursue after them with the sword, with the famine, and with the
pestilence, and will deliver them to be tossed to and fro among all the
kingdoms of the earth, to be an execration, and an astonishment, and a
hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them;
29:19because
they have not hearkened to my words, saith Jehovah, wherewith I sent unto
them my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but ye
would not hear, saith Jehovah. 29:20Hear ye therefore the word of
Jehovah, all ye of the captivity, whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to
Babylon. 29:21Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God
of Israel, concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah the
son of Maaseiah, who prophesy a lie unto you in my name: Behold, I will
deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall
slay them before your eyes; 29:22and of them shall be taken up a
curse by all the captives of Judah that are in Babylon, saying, Jehovah
make thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in
the fire; 29:23because they have wrought folly in
Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives, and have
spoken words in my name falsely, which I commanded them not; and I am he
that knoweth, and am witness, saith Jehovah. 29:24And concerning Shemaiah the
Nehelamite thou shalt speak, saying, 29:25Thus speaketh Jehovah of hosts, the
God of Israel, saying, Because thou hast sent letters in thine own name
unto all the people that are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of
Maaseiah, the priest, and to all the priests, saying, 29:26Jehovah hath
made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be
officers in the house of Jehovah, for every man that is mad, and maketh
himself a prophet, that thou shouldest put him in the stocks and in
shackles. 29:27Now therefore, why hast thou not
rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who maketh himself a prophet to you, 29:28forasmuch as
he hath sent unto us in Babylon, saying, The captivity is long:
build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit
of them? 29:29And Zephaniah the priest read this
letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet. 29:30Then came the word of Jehovah unto
Jeremiah, saying, 29:31Send to all them of the captivity,
saying, Thus saith Jehovah concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because
that Shemaiah hath prophesied unto you, and I sent him not, and he hath
caused you to trust in a lie; 29:32therefore thus saith Jehovah,
Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed; he shall not
have a man to dwell among this people, neither shall he behold the good
that I will do unto my people, saith Jehovah, because he hath spoken
rebellion against Jehovah.

30:1The
word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying, 30:2Thus speaketh
Jehovah, the God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have
spoken unto thee in a book. 30:3For, lo, the days come, saith
Jehovah, that I will turn again the captivity of my people Israel and
Judah, saith Jehovah; and I will cause them to return to the land that I
gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it. 30:4And these are
the words that Jehovah spake concerning Israel and concerning Judah. 30:5For thus saith
Jehovah: We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.
30:6Ask ye
now, and see whether a man doth travail with child: wherefore do I see
every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all
faces are turned into paleness? 30:7Alas! for that day is great, so that
none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be
saved out of it. 30:8And it shall come to pass in that
day, saith Jehovah of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck,
and will burst thy bonds; and strangers shall no more make him their
bondman; 30:9but they shall serve Jehovah their
God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them. 30:10Therefore fear
thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith Jehovah; neither be dismayed, O
Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of
their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease,
and none shall make him afraid. 30:11For I am with thee, saith Jehovah,
to save thee: for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have
scattered thee, but I will not make a full end of thee; but I will correct
thee in measure, and will in no wise leave thee unpunished. 30:12For thus saith
Jehovah, Thy hurt is incurable, and thy wound grievous. 30:13There is none
to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast no healing
medicines. 30:14All thy lovers have forgotten thee;
they seek thee not: for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy,
with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of thine iniquity,
because thy sins were increased. 30:15Why criest thou for thy hurt? thy
pain is incurable: for the greatness of thine iniquity, because thy sins
were increased, I have done these things unto thee. 30:16Therefore all
they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every
one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that despoil thee shall be
a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey. 30:17For I will
restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith
Jehovah; because they have called thee an outcast, saying, It is
Zion, whom no man seeketh after. 30:18Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will
turn again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have compassion on his
dwelling-places; and the city shall be builded upon its own hill, and the
palace shall be inhabited after its own manner. 30:19And out of
them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and
I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them,
and they shall not be small. 30:20Their children also shall be as
aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me; and I
will punish all that oppress them. 30:21And their prince shall be of
themselves, and their ruler shall proceed from the midst of them; and I
will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is he
that hath had boldness to approach unto me? saith Jehovah. 30:22And ye shall
be my people, and I will be your God. 30:23Behold, the tempest of Jehovah,
even his wrath, is gone forth, a sweeping tempest: it shall burst
upon the head of the wicked. 30:24The fierce anger of Jehovah shall
not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the intents
of his heart: in the latter days ye shall understand it.

31:1At
that time, saith Jehovah, will I be the God of all the families of Israel,
and they shall be my people. 31:2Thus saith Jehovah, The people that
were left of the sword found favor in the wilderness; even Israel, when I
went to cause him to rest. 31:3Jehovah appeared of old unto me,
saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore
with lovingkindness have I drawn thee. 31:4Again will I build thee, and thou
shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: again shalt thou be adorned with thy
tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry. 31:5Again shalt
thou plant vineyards upon the mountains of Samaria; the planters shall
plant, and shall enjoy the fruit thereof. 31:6For there shall
be a day, that the watchmen upon the hills of Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye,
and let us go up to Zion unto Jehovah our God. 31:7For thus saith Jehovah, Sing with
gladness for Jacob, and shout for the chief of the nations: publish ye,
praise ye, and say, O Jehovah, save thy people, the remnant of Israel.
31:8Behold, I
will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost
parts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman
with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company
shall they return hither. 31:9They shall come with weeping; and
with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers
of waters, in a straight way wherein they shall not stumble; for I am a
father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first-born. 31:10Hear the word
of Jehovah, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off; and say,
He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as shepherd doth
his flock. 31:11For Jehovah hath ransomed Jacob, and
redeemed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he. 31:12And they shall
come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow unto the goodness of
Jehovah, to the grain, and to the new wine, and to the oil, and to the
young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered
garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all. 31:13Then shall the
virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old together; for I
will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them
rejoice from their sorrow. 31:14And I will satiate the soul of the
priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness,
saith Jehovah. 31:15Thus saith Jehovah: A voice is heard
in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her
children; she refuseth to be comforted for her children, because they are
not. 31:16Thus saith Jehovah: Refrain thy
voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears; for thy work shall be
rewarded, saith Jehovah; and they shall come again from the land of the
enemy. 31:17And there is hope for thy latter
end, saith Jehovah; and thy children shall come again to their own
border. 31:18I have surely heard Ephraim
bemoaning himself thus, Thou hast chastised me, and I was
chastised, as a calf unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I
shall be turned; for thou art Jehovah my God. 31:19Surely after that I was turned, I
repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was
ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my
youth. 31:20Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a
darling child? for as often as I speak against him, I do earnestly
remember him still: therefore my heart yearneth for him; I will surely
have mercy upon him, saith Jehovah. 31:21Set thee up waymarks, make thee
guide-posts; set thy heart toward the highway, even the way by which thou
wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities.
31:22How long
wilt thou go hither and thither, O thou backsliding daughter? for Jehovah
hath created a new thing in the earth: a woman shall encompass a man.
31:23Thus
saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Yet again shall they use this
speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring
again their captivity: Jehovah bless thee, O habitation of righteousness,
O mountain of holiness. 31:24And Judah and all the cities thereof
shall dwell therein together, the husbandmen, and they that go about with
flocks. 31:25For I have satiated the weary soul,
and every sorrowful soul have I replenished. 31:26Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and
my sleep was sweet unto me. 31:27Behold, the days come, saith
Jehovah, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with
the seed of man, and with the seed of beast. 31:28And it shall come to pass that, like
as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to overthrow
and to destroy and to afflict, so will I watch over them to build and to
plant, saith Jehovah. 31:29In those days they shall say no
more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set
on edge. 31:30But every one shall die for his own
iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on
edge. 31:31Behold, the days come, saith
Jehovah, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and
with the house of Judah: 31:32not according to the covenant that I
made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring
them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I
was a husband unto them, saith Jehovah. 31:33But this is the covenant that I will
make with the house of Israel after those days, saith Jehovah: I will put
my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I
will be their God, and they shall be my people: 31:34and they shall
teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying,
Know Jehovah; for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the
greatest of them, saith Jehovah: for I will forgive their iniquity, and
their sin will I remember no more. 31:35Thus saith Jehovah, who giveth the
sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars
for a light by night, who stirreth up the sea, so that the waves thereof
roar; Jehovah of hosts is his name: 31:36If these ordinances depart from
before me, saith Jehovah, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from
being a nation before me for ever. 31:37Thus saith Jehovah: If heaven above
can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath,
then will I also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have
done, saith Jehovah. 31:38Behold, the days come, saith
Jehovah, that the city shall be built to Jehovah from the tower of Hananel
unto the gate of the corner. 31:39And the measuring line shall go out
further straight onward unto the hill Gareb, and shall turn about unto
Goah. 31:40And the whole valley of the dead
bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook Kidron, unto
the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy unto Jehovah;
it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever.

32:1The
word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah in the tenth year of Zedekiah king
of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar. 32:2Now at that
time the king of Babylon's army was besieging Jerusalem; and Jeremiah the
prophet was shut up in the court of the guard, which was in the king of
Judah's house. 32:3For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut
him up, saying, Wherefore dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith Jehovah,
Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he
shall take it; 32:4and Zedekiah king of Judah shall not
escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered
into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to
mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes; 32:5and he shall bring Zedekiah to
Babylon, and there shall he be until I visit him, saith Jehovah: though ye
fight with the Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper? 32:6And Jeremiah
said, The word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, 32:7Behold, Hanamel
the son of Shallum thine uncle shall come unto thee, saying, Buy thee my
field that is in Anathoth; for the right of redemption is thine to buy it.
32:8So
Hanamel mine uncle's son came to me in the court of the guard according to
the word of Jehovah, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that is
in Anathoth, which is in the land of Benjamin; for the right of
inheritance is thine, and the redemption is thine; buy it for thyself.
Then I knew that this was the word of Jehovah. 32:9And I bought the field that was in
Anathoth of Hanamel mine uncle's son, and weighed him the money, even
seventeen shekels of silver. 32:10And I subscribed the deed, and
sealed it, and called witnesses, and weighed him the money in the
balances. 32:11So I took the deed of the purchase,
both that which was sealed, according to the law and custom, and
that which was open: 32:12and I delivered the deed of the
purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the
presence of Hanamel mine uncle's son, and in the presence of the
witnesses that subscribed the deed of the purchase, before all the Jews
that sat in the court of the guard. 32:13And I charged Baruch before them,
saying, 32:14Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God
of Israel: Take these deeds, this deed of the purchase which is sealed,
and this deed which is open, and put them in an earthen vessel; that they
may continue many days. 32:15For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the
God of Israel: Houses and fields and vineyards shall yet again be bought
in this land. 32:16Now after I had delivered the deed
of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed unto Jehovah,
saying, 32:17Ah Lord Jehovah! behold, thou hast
made the heavens and the earth by thy great power and by thine
outstretched arm; there is nothing too hard for thee, 32:18who showest
lovingkindness unto thousands, and recompensest the iniquity of the
fathers into the bosom of their children after them; the great, the mighty
God, Jehovah of hosts is his name; 32:19great in counsel, and mighty in
work; whose eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men, to give
every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:
32:20who
didst set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even unto this day, both
in Israel and among other men; and madest thee a name, as at this
day; 32:21and
didst bring forth thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs,
and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm,
and with great terror; 32:22and gavest them this land, which
thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk
and honey; 32:23and they came in, and possessed it,
but they obeyed not thy voice, neither walked in thy law; they have done
nothing of all that thou commandedst them to do: therefore thou hast
caused all this evil to come upon them. 32:24Behold, the mounds, they are come
unto the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the
Chaldeans that fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine,
and of the pestilence; and what thou hast spoken is come to pass; and,
behold, thou seest it. 32:25And thou hast said unto me, O Lord
Jehovah, Buy thee the field for money, and call witnesses; whereas the
city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans. 32:26Then came the word of Jehovah unto
Jeremiah, saying, 32:27Behold, I am Jehovah, the God of all
flesh: is there anything too hard for me? 32:28Therefore thus saith Jehovah:
Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the
hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it: 32:29and the
Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set this city on
fire, and burn it, with the houses, upon whose roofs they have offered
incense unto Baal, and poured out drink-offerings unto other gods, to
provoke me to anger. 32:30For the children of Israel and the
children of Judah have done only that which was evil in my sight from
their youth; for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger
with the work of their hands, saith Jehovah. 32:31For this city hath been to me a
provocation of mine anger and of my wrath from the day that they built it
even unto this day; that I should remove it from before my face, 32:32because of all
the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which
they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes,
their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem. 32:33And they have turned unto me the
back, and not the face: and though I taught them, rising up early and
teaching them, yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction. 32:34But they set
their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.
32:35And they
built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of
Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the
fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my
mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin. 32:36And now
therefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, concerning this city,
whereof ye say, It is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by the
sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: 32:37Behold, I will
gather them out of all the countries, whither I have driven them in mine
anger, and in my wrath, and in great indignation; and I will bring them
again unto this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely: 32:38and they shall
be my people, and I will be their God: 32:39and I will give them one heart and
one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of
their children after them: 32:40and I will make an everlasting
covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do
them good; and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not
depart from me. 32:41Yea, I will rejoice over them to do
them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole
heart and with my whole soul. 32:42For thus saith Jehovah: Like as I
have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon
them all the good that I have promised them. 32:43And fields shall be bought in this
land, whereof ye say, It is desolate, without man or beast; it is given
into the hand of the Chaldeans. 32:44Men shall buy fields for money, and
subscribe the deeds, and seal them, and call witnesses, in the land of
Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah,
and in the cities of the hill-country, and in the cities of the lowland,
and in the cities of the South: for I will cause their captivity to
return, saith Jehovah.

33:1Moreover the word of Jehovah came
unto Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of
the guard, saying, 33:2Thus saith Jehovah that doeth it,
Jehovah that formeth it to establish it; Jehovah is his name: 33:3Call unto me,
and I will answer thee, and will show thee great things, and difficult,
which thou knowest not. 33:4For thus saith Jehovah, the God of
Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of
the kings of Judah, which are broken down to make a defence against
the mounds and against the sword; 33:5while men come to fight with
the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have
slain in mine anger and in my wrath, and for all whose wickedness I have
hid my face from this city: 33:6Behold, I will bring it health and
cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal unto them abundance of peace
and truth. 33:7And I will cause the captivity of
Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at
the first. 33:8And I will cleanse them from all
their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all
their iniquities, whereby they have sinned against me, and whereby they
have transgressed against me. 33:9And this city shall be to me
for a name of joy, for a praise and for a glory, before all the nations of
the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto them, and shall
fear and tremble for all the good and for all the peace that I procure
unto it. 33:10Thus saith Jehovah: Yet again there
shall be heard in this place, whereof ye say, It is waste, without man and
without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of
Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and
without beast, 33:11the voice of joy and the voice of
gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the
voice of them that say, Give thanks to Jehovah of hosts, for Jehovah is
good, for his lovingkindness endureth for ever; and of them
that bring sacrifices of thanksgiving into the house of Jehovah.
For I will cause the captivity of the land to return as at the first,
saith Jehovah. 33:12Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Yet
again shall there be in this place, which is waste, without man and
without beast, and in all the cities thereof, a habitation of shepherds
causing their flocks to lie down. 33:13In the cities of the hill-country,
in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the South, and in the
land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of
Judah, shall the flocks again pass under the hands of him that numbereth
them, saith Jehovah. 33:14Behold, the days come, saith
Jehovah, that I will perform that good word which I have spoken concerning
the house of Israel and concerning the house of Judah. 33:15In those days,
and at that time, will I cause a Branch of righteousness to grow up unto
David; and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. 33:16In those days
shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely; and this is the
name whereby she shall be called: Jehovah our righteousness. 33:17For thus saith
Jehovah: David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house
of Israel; 33:18neither shall the priests the
Levites want a man before me to offer burnt-offerings, and to burn
meal-offerings, and to do sacrifice continually. 33:19And the word
of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah, saying, 33:20Thus saith Jehovah: If ye can break
my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, so that there shall
not be day and night in their season; 33:21then may also my covenant be broken
with David my servant, that he shall not have a son to reign upon his
throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers. 33:22As the host of
heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured; so will I
multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto
me. 33:23And
the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah, saying, 33:24Considerest thou not what this
people have spoken, saying, The two families which Jehovah did choose, he
hath cast them off? thus do they despise my people, that they should be no
more a nation before them. 33:25Thus saith Jehovah: If my covenant
of day and night stand not, if I have not appointed the ordinances
of heaven and earth; 33:26then will I also cast away the seed
of Jacob, and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his seed to
be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause
their captivity to return, and will have mercy on them.

34:1The
word which came unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, when Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth that were
under his dominion, and all the peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem,
and against all the cities thereof, saying: 34:2Thus saith Jehovah, the God of
Israel, Go, and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus saith
Jehovah, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of
Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire: 34:3and thou shalt not escape out of his
hand, but shalt surely be taken, and delivered into his hand; and thine
eyes shall behold the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with
thee mouth to mouth, and thou shalt go to Babylon. 34:4Yet hear the
word of Jehovah, O Zedekiah king of Judah: thus saith Jehovah concerning
thee, Thou shalt not die by the sword; 34:5thou shalt die in peace; and with the
burnings of thy fathers, the former kings that were before thee, so shall
they make a burning for thee; and they shall lament thee, saying,
Ah Lord! for I have spoken the word, saith Jehovah. 34:6Then Jeremiah
the prophet spake all these words unto Zedekiah king of Judah in
Jerusalem, 34:7when the king of Babylon's army was
fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that were
left, against Lachish and against Azekah; for these alone remained
of the cities of Judah as fortified cities. 34:8The word that
came unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, after that the king Zedekiah had made a
covenant with all the people that were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty
unto them; 34:9that every man should let his
man-servant, and every man his maid-servant, that is a Hebrew or a
Hebrewess, go free; that none should make bondmen of them, to wit,
of a Jew his brother. 34:10And all the princes and all the
people obeyed, that had entered into the covenant, that every one should
let his man-servant, and every one his maid-servant, go free, that none
should make bondmen of them any more; they obeyed, and let them go: 34:11but afterwards
they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let
go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for
handmaids. 34:12Therefore the word of Jehovah came
to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying, 34:13Thus saith Jehovah, the God of
Israel: I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them
forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying, 34:14At the end of
seven years ye shall let go every man his brother that is a Hebrew, that
hath been sold unto thee, and hath served thee six years, thou shalt let
him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither
inclined their ear. 34:15And ye were now turned, and had done
that which is right in mine eyes, in proclaiming liberty every man to his
neighbor; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is
called by my name: 34:16but ye turned and profaned my name,
and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom ye had
let go free at their pleasure, to return; and ye brought them into
subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids. 34:17Therefore thus
saith Jehovah: ye have not hearkened unto me, to proclaim liberty, every
man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim unto
you a liberty, saith Jehovah, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the
famine; and I will make you to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms
of the earth. 34:18And I will give the men that have
transgressed my covenant, that have not performed the words of the
covenant which they made before me, when they cut the calf in twain and
passed between the parts thereof; 34:19the princes of Judah, and the
princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of
the land, that passed between the parts of the calf; 34:20I will even
give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that
seek their life; and their dead bodies shall be for food unto the birds of
the heavens, and to the beasts of the earth. 34:21And Zedekiah king of Judah and his
princes will I give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of
them that seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's
army, that are gone away from you. 34:22Behold, I will command, saith
Jehovah, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight
against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities
of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.

35:1The
word which came unto Jeremiah from Jehovah in the days of Jehoiakim the
son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying, 35:2Go unto the house of the Rechabites,
and speak unto them, and bring them into the house of Jehovah, into one of
the chambers, and give them wine to drink. 35:3Then I took Jaazaniah the son of
Jeremiah, the son of Habazziniah, and his brethren, and all his sons, and
the whole house of the Rechabites; 35:4and I brought them into the house of
Jehovah, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the
man of God, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above the
chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the threshold. 35:5And I set
before the sons of the house of the Rechabites bowls full of wine, and
cups; and I said unto them, Drink ye wine. 35:6But they said, We will drink no wine;
for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, saying, Ye shall
drink no wine, neither ye, nor your sons, for ever: 35:7neither shall
ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any; but all
your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land
wherein ye sojourn. 35:8And we have obeyed the voice of
Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all that he charged us, to drink
no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, or our daughters; 35:9nor to build
houses for us to dwell in; neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:
35:10but we
have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that
Jonadab our father commanded us. 35:11But it came to pass, when
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, that we said, Come,
and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for
fear of the army of the Syrians; so we dwell at Jerusalem. 35:12Then came the
word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah, saying, 35:13Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God
of Israel: Go, and say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, Will ye not receive instruction to hearken to my words? saith
Jehovah. 35:14The words of Jonadab the son of
Rechab, that he commanded his sons, not to drink wine, are performed; and
unto this day they drink none, for they obey their father's commandment:
but I have spoken unto you, rising up early and speaking; and ye have not
hearkened unto me. 35:15I have sent also unto you all my
servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye
now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after
other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have
given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor
hearkened unto me. 35:16Forasmuch as the sons of Jonadab the
son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father which he
commanded them, but this people hath not hearkened unto me; 35:17therefore thus
saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring
upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I
have pronounced against them; because I have spoken unto them, but they
have not heard; and I have called unto them, but they have not answered.
35:18And
Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith Jehovah of
hosts, the God of Israel: Because ye have obeyed the commandment of
Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto
all that he commanded you; 35:19therefore thus saith Jehovah of
hosts, the God of Israel: Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man
to stand before me for ever.

36:1And it
came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of
Judah, that this word came unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying, 36:2Take thee a
roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto
thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from
the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.
36:3It may be
that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto
them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive
their iniquity and their sin. 36:4Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son
of Neriah; and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of
Jehovah, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book. 36:5And Jeremiah
commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot go into the house of
Jehovah: 36:6therefore go thou, and read in the
roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of Jehovah in the
ears of the people in Jehovah's house upon the fast-day; and also thou
shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities.
36:7It may be
they will present their supplication before Jehovah, and will return every
one from his evil way; for great is the anger and the wrath that Jehovah
hath pronounced against this people. 36:8And Baruch the son of Neriah did
according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the
book the words of Jehovah in Jehovah's house. 36:9Now it came to pass in the fifth year
of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, that
all the people in Jerusalem, and all the people that came from the cities
of Judah unto Jerusalem, proclaimed a fast before Jehovah. 36:10Then read
Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of Jehovah, in the
chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan, the scribe, in the upper court, at
the entry of the new gate of Jehovah's house, in the ears of all the
people. 36:11And when Micaiah the son of
Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the words of
Jehovah, 36:12he went down into the king's house,
into the scribe's chamber: and, lo, all the princes were sitting there,
to wit, Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and
Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah
the son of Hananiah, and all the princes. 36:13Then Micaiah declared unto them all
the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the
people. 36:14Therefore all the princes sent
Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto
Baruch, saying, Take in thy hand the roll wherein thou hast read in the
ears of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the roll in
his hand, and came unto them. 36:15And they said unto him, Sit down
now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears. 36:16Now it came to
pass, when they had heard all the words, they turned in fear one toward
another, and said unto Baruch, We will surely tell the king of all these
words. 36:17And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell
us now, How didst thou write all these words at his mouth? 36:18Then Baruch
answered them, He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I
wrote them with ink in the book. 36:19Then said the princes unto Baruch,
Go, hide thee, thou and Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye are. 36:20And they went
in to the king into the court; but they had laid up the roll in the
chamber of Elishama the scribe; and they told all the words in the ears of
the king. 36:21So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the
roll; and he took it out of the chamber of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi
read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes that
stood beside the king. 36:22Now the king was sitting in the
winter-house in the ninth month: and there was a fire in the
brazier burning before him. 36:23And it came to pass, when Jehudi had
read three or four leaves, that the king cut it with the penknife,
and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the roll was
consumed in the fire that was in the brazier. 36:24And they were not afraid, nor rent
their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants that heard all
these words. 36:25Moreover Elnathan and Delaiah and
Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the
roll; but he would not hear them. 36:26And the king commanded Jerahmeel the
king's son, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of
Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but Jehovah
hid them. 36:27Then the word of Jehovah came to
Jeremiah, after that the king had burned the roll, and the words which
Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying, 36:28Take thee again another roll, and
write in it all the former words that were in the first roll, which
Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burned. 36:29And concerning Jehoiakim king of
Judah thou shalt say, Thus saith Jehovah: Thou hast burned this roll,
saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall
certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from thence
man and beast? 36:30Therefore thus saith Jehovah
concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have none to sit upon the
throne of David; and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the
heat, and in the night to the frost. 36:31And I will punish him and his seed
and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon
the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that
I have pronounced against them, but they hearkened not. 36:32Then took
Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of
Neriah, who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the
book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire; and there were
added besides unto them many like words.

37:1And
Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned as king, instead of Coniah the son of
Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of
Judah. 37:2But neither he, nor his servants, nor
the people of the land, did hearken unto the words of Jehovah, which he
spake by the prophet Jeremiah. 37:3And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal
the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, to
the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Pray now unto Jehovah our God for us. 37:4Now Jeremiah
came in and went out among the people; for they had not put him into
prison. 37:5And Pharaoh's army was come forth out
of Egypt; and when the Chaldeans that were besieging Jerusalem heard
tidings of them, they brake up from Jerusalem. 37:6Then came the word of Jehovah unto
the prophet Jeremiah, saying, 37:7Thus saith Jehovah, the God of
Israel, Thus shall ye say to the king of Judah, that sent you unto me to
inquire of me: Behold, Pharaoh's army, which is come forth to help you,
shall return to Egypt into their own land. 37:8And the Chaldeans shall come again,
and fight against this city; and they shall take it, and burn it with
fire. 37:9Thus saith Jehovah, Deceive not
yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us; for they
shall not depart. 37:10For though ye had smitten the whole
army of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there remained but
wounded men among them, yea would they rise up every man in his tent, and
burn this city with fire. 37:11And it came to pass that, when the
army of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's
army, 37:12then Jeremiah went forth out of
Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to receive his portion there,
in the midst of the people. 37:13And when he was in the gate of
Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son
of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he laid hold on Jeremiah the
prophet, saying, Thou art falling away to the Chaldeans. 37:14Then said
Jeremiah, It is false; I am not falling away to the Chaldeans. But he
hearkened not to him; so Irijah laid hold on Jeremiah, and brought him to
the princes. 37:15And the princes were wroth with
Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan
the scribe; for they had made that the prison. 37:16When Jeremiah was come into the
dungeon-house, and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many
days; 37:17Then Zedekiah the king sent, and
fetched him: and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is
there any word from Jehovah? And Jeremiah said, There is. He said also,
Thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon. 37:18Moreover
Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, Wherein have I sinned against thee, or
against thy servants, or against this people, that ye have put me in
prison? 37:19Where now are your prophets that
prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against
you, nor against this land? 37:20And now hear, I pray thee, O my lord
the king: let my supplication, I pray thee, be presented before thee, that
thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I
die there. 37:21Then Zedekiah the king commanded,
and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard; and they gave him
daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in
the city was spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.

38:1And
Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashhur, and Jucal
the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur the son of Malchijah, heard the words
that Jeremiah spake unto all the people, saying, 38:2Thus saith
Jehovah, He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, by the
famine, and by the pestilence; but he that goeth forth to the Chaldeans
shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey, and he shall live.
38:3Thus
saith Jehovah, This city shall surely be given into the hand of the army
of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it. 38:4Then the princes said unto the king,
Let this man, we pray thee, be put to death; forasmuch as he weakeneth the
hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the
people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the
welfare of this people, but the hurt. 38:5And Zedekiah the king said, Behold,
he is in your hand; for the king is not he that can do anything against
you. 38:6Then
took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king's
son, that was in the court of the guard: and they let down Jeremiah with
cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank
in the mire. 38:7Now when Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, a
eunuch, who was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in
the dungeon (the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin,) 38:8Ebed-melech
went forth out of the king's house, and spake to the king, saying, 38:9My lord the
king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the
prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die in
the place where he is, because of the famine; for there is no more bread
in the city. 38:10Then the king commanded Ebed-melech
the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up
Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die. 38:11So Ebed-melech
took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the
treasury, and took thence rags and worn-out garments, and let them down by
cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah. 38:12And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said
unto Jeremiah, Put now these rags and worn-out garments under thine
armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so. 38:13So they drew up Jeremiah with the
cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the
court of the guard. 38:14Then Zedekiah the king sent, and
took Jeremiah the prophet unto him into the third entry that is in the
house of Jehovah: and the king said unto Jeremiah, I will ask thee a
thing; hide nothing from me. 38:15Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If
I declare it unto thee, wilt thou not surely put me to death? and if I
give thee counsel, thou wilt not hearken unto me. 38:16So Zedekiah
the king sware secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, As Jehovah liveth, that
made us this soul, I will not put thee to death, neither will I give thee
into the hand of these men that seek thy life. 38:17Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah,
Thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: If thou wilt go
forth unto the king of Babylon's princes, then thy soul shall live, and
this city shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt live, and thy
house. 38:18But if thou wilt not go forth to the
king of Babylon's princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of
the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt not escape
out of their hand. 38:19And Zedekiah the king said unto
Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews that are fallen away to the Chaldeans,
lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me. 38:20But Jeremiah
said, They shall not deliver thee. Obey, I beseech thee, the voice of
Jehovah, in that which I speak unto thee: so it shall be well with thee,
and thy soul shall live. 38:21But if thou refuse to go forth, this
is the word that Jehovah hath showed me: 38:22behold, all the women that are left
in the king of Judah's house shall be brought forth to the king of
Babylon's princes, and those women shall say, Thy familiar friends have
set thee on, and have prevailed over thee: now that thy feet are
sunk in the mire, they are turned away back. 38:23And they shall bring out all thy
wives and thy children to the Chaldeans; and thou shalt not escape out of
their hand, but shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and
thou shalt cause this city to be burned with fire. 38:24Then said
Zedekiah unto Jeremiah, Let no man know of these words, and thou shalt not
die. 38:25But
if the princes hear that I have talked with thee, and they come unto thee,
and say unto thee, Declare unto us now what thou hast said unto the king;
hide it not from us, and we will not put thee to death; also what the king
said unto thee: 38:26then thou shalt say unto them, I
presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to
return to Jonathan's house, to die there. 38:27Then came all the princes unto
Jeremiah, and asked him; and he told them according to all these words
that the king had commanded. So they left off speaking with him; for the
matter was not perceived. 38:28So Jeremiah abode in the court of
the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken.

39:1And it
came to pass when Jerusalem was taken, (in the ninth year of Zedekiah king
of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all
his army against Jerusalem, and besieged it; 39:2in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in
the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the
city,) 39:3that all the princes of the king of
Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, to wit,
Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim, Rab-saris, Nergal-sharezer,
Rab-mag, with all the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon. 39:4And it came to
pass that, when Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw
them, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way
of the king's garden, through the gate betwixt the two walls; and he went
out toward the Arabah. 39:5But the army of the Chaldeans pursued
after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they
had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon to
Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he gave judgment upon him. 39:6Then the king
of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the
king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah. 39:7Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes,
and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon. 39:8And the
Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the people, with
fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem. 39:9Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the
guard carried away captive into Babylon the residue of the people that
remained in the city, the deserters also that fell away to him, and the
residue of the people that remained. 39:10But Nebuzaradan the captain of the
guard left of the poor of the people, that had nothing, in the land of
Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time. 39:11Now
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning Jeremiah to
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, saying, 39:12Take him, and look well to him, and
do him no harm; but do unto him even as he shall say unto thee. 39:13So Nebuzaradan
the captain of the guard sent, and Nebushazban, Rab-saris, and
Nergal-sharezer, Rab-mag, and all the chief officers of the king of
Babylon; 39:14they sent, and took Jeremiah out of
the court of the guard, and committed him unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam,
the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home: so he dwelt among the
people. 39:15Now the word of Jehovah came unto
Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of the guard, saying, 39:16Go, and speak
to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God
of Israel: Behold, I will bring my words upon this city for evil, and not
for good; and they shall be accomplished before thee in that day. 39:17But I will
deliver thee in that day, saith Jehovah; and thou shalt not be given into
the hand of the men of whom thou art afraid. 39:18For I will surely save thee, and
thou shalt not fall by the sword, but thy life shall be for a prey unto
thee; because thou hast put thy trust in me, saith Jehovah.

40:1The
word which came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, after that Nebuzaradan the
captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him
being bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah, that
were carried away captive unto Babylon. 40:2And the captain of the guard took
Jeremiah, and said unto him, Jehovah thy God pronounced this evil upon
this place; 40:3and Jehovah hath brought it, and done
according as he spake: because ye have sinned against Jehovah, and have
not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing is come upon you. 40:4And now,
behold, I loose thee this day from the chains which are upon thy hand. If
it seem good unto thee to come with me into Babylon, come, and I will look
well unto thee; but if it seem ill unto thee to come with me into Babylon,
forbear: behold, all the land is before thee; whither it seemeth good and
right unto thee to go, thither go. 40:5Now while he was not yet gone back,
Go back then, said he, to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of
Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon hath made governor over the cities of
Judah, and dwell with him among the people; or go wheresoever it seemeth
right unto thee to go. So the captain of the guard gave him victuals and a
present, and let him go. 40:6Then went Jeremiah unto Gedaliah the
son of Ahikam to Mizpah, and dwelt with him among the people that were
left in the land. 40:7Now when all the captains of the
forces that were in the fields, even they and their men, heard that the
king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land,
and had committed unto him men, and women, and children, and of the
poorest of the land, of them that were not carried away captive to
Babylon; 40:8then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah,
to wit, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the
sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai
the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their
men. 40:9And
Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan sware unto them and to their
men, saying, Fear not to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve
the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you. 40:10As for me,
behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to stand before the Chaldeans that shall
come unto us: but ye, gather ye wine and summer fruits and oil, and put
them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that ye have taken. 40:11Likewise when
all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the children of Ammon, and in
Edom, and that were in all the countries, heard that the king of Babylon
had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the
son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan; 40:12then all the Jews returned out of
all places whither they were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to
Gedaliah, unto Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits very much.
40:13Moreover
Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were in
the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, 40:14and said unto him, Dost thou know
that Baalis the king of the children of Ammon hath sent Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah to take thy life? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed them
not. 40:15Then Johanan the son of Kareah spake
to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, Let me go, I pray thee, and I will
slay Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it: wherefore
should he take thy life, that all the Jews that are gathered unto thee
should be scattered, and the remnant of Judah perish? 40:16But Gedaliah
the son of Ahikam said unto Johanan the son of Kareah, Thou shalt not do
this thing; for thou speakest falsely of Ishmael.

41:1Now it
came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the
son of Elishama, of the seed royal and one of the chief officers of
the king, and ten men with him, came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to
Mizpah; and there they did eat bread together in Mizpah. 41:2Then arose
Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men that were with him, and
smote Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan with the sword, and
slew him, whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land. 41:3Ishmael also
slew all the Jews that were with him, to wit, with Gedaliah, at
Mizpah, and the Chaldeans that were found there, the men of war. 41:4And it came to
pass the second day after he had slain Gedaliah, and no man knew it, 41:5that there came
men from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men,
having their beards shaven and their clothes rent, and having cut
themselves, with meal-offerings and frankincense in their hand, to bring
them to the house of Jehovah. 41:6And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went
forth from Mizpah to meet them, weeping all along as he went: and it came
to pass, as he met them, he said unto them, Come to Gedaliah the son of
Ahikam. 41:7And it was so, when they came into
the midst of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them, and
cast them into the midst of the pit, he, and the men that were with
him. 41:8But
ten men were found among them that said unto Ishmael, Slay us not; for we
have stores hidden in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and
of honey. So he forbare, and slew them not among their brethren. 41:9Now the pit
wherein Ishmael cast all the dead bodies of the men whom he had slain, by
the side of Gedaliah (the same was that which Asa the king had made for
fear of Baasha king of Israel,) Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it
with them that were slain. 41:10Then Ishmael carried away captive
all the residue of the people that were in Mizpah, even the king's
daughters, and all the people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan
the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam;
Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go
over to the children of Ammon. 41:11But when Johanan the son of Kareah,
and all the captains of the forces that were with him, heard of all the
evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done, 41:12then they took
all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and
found him by the great waters that are in Gibeon. 41:13Now it came to
pass that, when all the people that were with Ishmael saw Johanan the son
of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, then
they were glad. 41:14So all the people that Ishmael had
carried away captive from Mizpah turned about and came back, and went unto
Johanan the son of Kareah. 41:15But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah
escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the children of Ammon.
41:16Then
took Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that
were with him, all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from
Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after that he had slain
Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, to wit, the men of war, and the women,
and the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought back from Gibeon:
41:17and they
departed, and dwelt in Geruth Chimham, which is by Beth-lehem, to go to
enter into Egypt, 41:18because of the Chaldeans; for they
were afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had slain
Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor over
the land.

42:1Then
all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and
Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least even unto
the greatest, came near, 42:2and said unto Jeremiah the prophet,
Let, we pray thee, our supplication be presented before thee, and pray for
us unto Jehovah thy God, even for all this remnant; for we are left but a
few of many, as thine eyes do behold us: 42:3that Jehovah thy God may show us the
way wherein we should walk, and the thing that we should do. 42:4Then Jeremiah
the prophet said unto them, I have heard you; behold, I will pray unto
Jehovah your God according to your words; and it shall come to pass that
whatsoever thing Jehovah shall answer you, I will declare it unto you; I
will keep nothing back from you. 42:5Then they said to Jeremiah, Jehovah
be a true and faithful witness amongst us, if we do not according to all
the word wherewith Jehovah thy God shall send thee to us. 42:6Whether it be
good, or whether it be evil, we will obey the voice of Jehovah our God, to
whom we send thee; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of
Jehovah our God. 42:7And it came to pass after ten days,
that the word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah. 42:8Then called he Johanan the son of
Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, and all the
people from the least even to the greatest, 42:9and said unto them, Thus saith
Jehovah, the God of Israel, unto whom ye sent me to present your
supplication before him: 42:10If ye will still abide in this land,
then will I build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and
not pluck you up; for I repent me of the evil that I have done unto you.
42:11Be not
afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom ye are afraid; be not afraid of
him, saith Jehovah: for I am with you to save you, and to deliver you from
his hand. 42:12And I will grant you mercy, that he
may have mercy upon you, and cause you to return to your own land. 42:13But if ye say,
We will not dwell in this land; so that ye obey not the voice of Jehovah
your God, 42:14saying, No; but we will go into the
land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the
trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell: 42:15now therefore
hear ye the word of Jehovah, O remnant of Judah: Thus saith Jehovah of
hosts, the God of Israel, If ye indeed set your faces to enter into Egypt,
and go to sojourn there; 42:16then it shall come to pass, that the
sword, which ye fear, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and
the famine, whereof ye are afraid, shall follow hard after you there in
Egypt; and there ye shall die. 42:17So shall it be with all the men that
set their faces to go into Egypt to sojourn there: they shall die by the
sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; and none of them shall remain
or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them. 42:18For thus saith
Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: As mine anger and my wrath hath been
poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so shall my wrath be
poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt; and ye shall be an
execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall
see this place no more. 42:19Jehovah hath spoken concerning you,
O remnant of Judah, Go ye not into Egypt: know certainly that I have
testified unto you this day. 42:20For ye have dealt deceitfully
against your own souls; for ye sent me unto Jehovah your God, saying, Pray
for us unto Jehovah our God; and according unto all that Jehovah our God
shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do it: 42:21and I have
this day declared it to you; but ye have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah
your God in anything for which he hath sent me unto you. 42:22Now therefore
know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the
pestilence, in the place whither ye desire to go to sojourn there.

43:1And it
came to pass that, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking unto all the
people all the words of Jehovah their God, wherewith Jehovah their God had
sent him to them, even all these words, 43:2then spake Azariah the son of
Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying
unto Jeremiah, Thou speakest falsely: Jehovah our God hath not sent thee
to say, Ye shall not go into Egypt to sojourn there; 43:3but Baruch the
son of Neriah setteth thee on against us, to deliver us into the hand of
the Chaldeans, that they may put us to death, and carry us away captive to
Babylon. 43:4So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all
the captains of the forces, and all the people, obeyed not the voice of
Jehovah, to dwell in the land of Judah. 43:5But Johanan the son of Kareah, and
all the captains of the forces, took all the remnant of Judah, that were
returned from all the nations whither they had been driven, to sojourn in
the land of Judah; 43:6the men, and the women, and the
children, and the king's daughters, and every person that Nebuzaradan the
captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of
Shaphan; and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah; 43:7and they came
into the land of Egypt; for they obeyed not the voice of Jehovah: and they
came unto Tahpanhes. 43:8Then came the word of Jehovah unto
Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying, 43:9Take great stones in thy hand, and
hide them in mortar in the brickwork, which is at the entry of Pharaoh's
house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah; 43:10and say unto
them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will send
and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his
throne upon these stones that I have hid; and he shall spread his royal
pavilion over them. 43:11And he shall come, and shall smite
the land of Egypt; such as are for death shall be given to death,
and such as are for captivity to captivity, and such as are for the sword
to the sword. 43:12And I will kindle a fire in the
houses of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry them away
captive: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd
putteth on his garment; and he shall go forth from thence in peace. 43:13He shall also
break the pillars of Beth-shemesh, that is in the land of Egypt; and the
houses of the gods of Egypt shall he burn with fire.

44:1The
word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews that dwelt in the land
of Egypt, that dwelt at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Memphis, and in
the country of Pathros, saying, 44:2Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God
of Israel: Ye have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem,
and upon all the cities of Judah; and, behold, this day they are a
desolation, and no man dwelleth therein, 44:3because of their wickedness which
they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn
incense, and to serve other gods, that they knew not, neither they,
nor ye, nor your fathers. 44:4Howbeit I sent unto you all my
servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Oh, do
not this abominable thing that I hate. 44:5But they hearkened not, nor inclined
their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other
gods. 44:6Wherefore my wrath and mine anger was
poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of
Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as it is this day. 44:7Therefore now
thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: Wherefore commit
ye this great evil against your own souls, to cut off from you man
and woman, infant and suckling, out of the midst of Judah, to leave you
none remaining; 44:8in that ye provoke me unto anger with
the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of
Egypt, whither ye are gone to sojourn; that ye may be cut off, and that ye
may be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth? 44:9Have ye
forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings
of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and
the wickedness of your wives which they committed in the land of Judah,
and in the streets of Jerusalem? 44:10They are not humbled even unto this
day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes,
that I set before you and before your fathers. 44:11Therefore thus saith Jehovah of
hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will set my face against you for evil,
even to cut off all Judah. 44:12And I will take the remnant of
Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn
there, and they shall all be consumed; in the land of Egypt shall they
fall; they shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine; they shall
die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the
famine; and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a
curse, and a reproach. 44:13For I will punish them that dwell in
the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the
famine, and by the pestilence; 44:14so that none of the remnant of
Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape
or be left, to return into the land of Judah, to which they have a desire
to return to dwell there: for none shall return save such as shall escape.
44:15Then all
the men who knew that their wives burned incense unto other gods, and all
the women that stood by, a great assembly, even all the people that dwelt
in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying, 44:16As for the
word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of Jehovah, we will not
hearken unto thee. 44:17But we will certainly perform every
word that is gone forth out of our mouth, to burn incense unto the queen
of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto her, as we have done, we
and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in
the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty of victuals, and were
well, and saw no evil. 44:18But since we left off burning
incense to the queen of heaven, and pouring out drink-offerings unto her,
we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the
famine. 44:19And when we burned incense to the
queen of heaven, and poured out drink-offerings unto her, did we make her
cakes to worship her, and pour out drink-offerings unto her, without our
husbands? 44:20Then Jeremiah said unto all the
people, to the men, and to the women, even to all the people that had
given him that answer, saying, 44:21The incense that ye burned in the
cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye and your fathers,
your kings and your princes, and the people of the land, did not Jehovah
remember them, and came it not into his mind? 44:22so that Jehovah could not longer
bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations
which ye have committed; therefore is your land become a desolation, and
an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day. 44:23Because ye
have burned incense, and because ye have sinned against Jehovah, and have
not obeyed the voice of Jehovah, nor walked in his law, nor in his
statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil is happened unto
you, as it is this day. 44:24Moreover Jeremiah said unto all the
people, and to all the women, Hear the word of Jehovah, all Judah that are
in the land of Egypt: 44:25Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God
of Israel, saying, Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths,
and with your hands have fulfilled it, saying, We will surely perform our
vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to
pour out drink-offerings unto her: establish then your vows, and perform
your vows. 44:26Therefore hear ye the word of
Jehovah, all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt: Behold, I have sworn
by my great name, saith Jehovah, that my name shall no more be named in
the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, As the
Lord Jehovah liveth. 44:27Behold, I watch over them for evil,
and not for good; and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt
shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of
them. 44:28And they that escape the sword shall
return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, few in number; and
all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn
there, shall know whose word shall stand, mine, or theirs. 44:29And this shall
be the sign unto you, saith Jehovah, that I will punish you in this place,
that ye may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil:
44:30Thus
saith Jehovah, Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the
hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life; as I
gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon, who was his enemy, and sought his life.

45:1The
word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto Baruch the son of Neriah, when
he wrote these word in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year
of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying, 45:2Thus saith
Jehovah, the God of Israel, unto thee, O Baruch: 45:3Thou didst say,
Woe is me now! for Jehovah hath added sorrow to my pain; I am weary with
my groaning, and I find no rest. 45:4Thus shalt thou say unto him, Thus
saith Jehovah: Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that
which I have planted I will pluck up; and this in the whole land. 45:5And seekest
thou great things for thyself? seek them not; for, behold, I will bring
evil upon all flesh, saith Jehovah; but thy life will I give unto thee for
a prey in all places whither thou goest.

46:1The
word of Jehovah which came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.
46:2Of Egypt:
concerning the army of Pharaoh-neco king of Egypt, which was by the river
Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the
fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah. 46:3Prepare ye the
buckler and shield, and draw near to battle. 46:4Harness the horses, and get up, ye
horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, put on
the coats of mail. 46:5Wherefore have I seen it? they are
dismayed and are turned backward; and their mighty ones are beaten down,
and are fled apace, and look not back: terror is on every side, saith
Jehovah. 46:6Let not the swift flee away, nor the
mighty man escape; in the north by the river Euphrates have they stumbled
and fallen. 46:7Who is this that riseth up like the
Nile, whose waters toss themselves like the rivers? 46:8Egypt riseth up
like the Nile, and his waters toss themselves like the rivers: and he
saith, I will rise up, I will cover the earth; I will destroy cities and
the inhabitants thereof. 46:9Go up, ye horses; and rage, ye
chariots; and let the mighty men go forth: Cush and Put, that handle the
shield; and the Ludim, that handle and bend the bow. 46:10For that day
is a day of the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he
may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour and be
satiate, and shall drink its fill of their blood; for the Lord, Jehovah of
hosts, hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates. 46:11Go up into
Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain dost thou use
many medicines; there is no healing for thee. 46:12The nations have heard of thy shame,
and the earth is full of thy cry; for the mighty man hath stumbled against
the mighty, they are fallen both of them together. 46:13The word that
Jehovah spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how that Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt. 46:14Declare ye in
Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Memphis and in Tahpanhes: say
ye, Stand forth, and prepare thee; for the sword hath devoured round about
thee. 46:15Why are thy strong ones swept away?
they stood not, because Jehovah did drive them. 46:16He made many
to stumble, yea, they fell one upon another: and they said, Arise, and let
us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the
oppressing sword. 46:17They cried there, Pharaoh king of
Egypt is but a noise; he hath let the appointed time pass by. 46:18As I live,
saith the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts, surely like Tabor among
the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, so shall he come. 46:19O thou
daughter that dwellest in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity; for
Memphis shall become a desolation, and shall be burnt up, without
inhabitant. 46:20Egypt is a very fair heifer;
but destruction out of the north is come, it is come. 46:21Also her hired
men in the midst of her are like calves of the stall; for they also are
turned back, they are fled away together, they did not stand: for the day
of their calamity is come upon them, the time of their visitation. 46:22The sound
thereof shall go like the serpent; for they shall march with an army, and
come against her with axes, as hewers of wood. 46:23They shall cut down her forest,
saith Jehovah, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than
the locusts, and are innumerable. 46:24The daughter of Egypt shall be put
to shame; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
46:25Jehovah
of hosts, the God of Israel, saith: Behold, I will punish Amon of No, and
Pharaoh, and Egypt, with her gods, and her kings; even Pharaoh, and them
that trust in him: 46:26and I will deliver them into the
hand of those that seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants; and afterwards it
shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith Jehovah. 46:27But fear not
thou, O Jacob my servant, neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will
save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and
Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and none shall make
him afraid. 46:28Fear not thou, O Jacob my servant,
saith Jehovah; for I am with thee: for I will make a full end of all the
nations whither I have driven thee; but I will not make a full end of
thee, but I will correct thee in measure, and will in no wise leave thee
unpunished.

47:1The
word of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the
Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza. 47:2Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, waters
rise up out of the north, and shall become an overflowing stream, and
shall overflow the land and all that is therein, the city and them that
dwell therein; and the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land
shall wail. 47:3At the noise of the stamping of the
hoofs of his strong ones, at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling
of his wheels, the fathers look not back to their children for feebleness
of hands; 47:4because of the day that cometh to
destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper
that remaineth: for Jehovah will destroy the Philistines, the remnant of
the isle of Caphtor. 47:5Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon
is brought to nought, the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut
thyself? 47:6O thou sword of Jehovah, how long
will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard; rest, and
be still. 47:7How canst thou be quiet, seeing
Jehovah hath given thee a charge? Against Ashkelon, and against the
sea-shore, there hath he appointed it.

48:1Of
Moab. Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Woe unto Nebo! for
it is laid waste; Kiriathaim is put to shame, it is taken; Misgab is put
to shame and broken down. 48:2The praise of Moab is no more; in
Heshbon they have devised evil against her: Come, and let us cut her off
from being a nation. Thou also, O Madmen, shalt be brought to silence: the
sword shall pursue thee. 48:3The sound of a cry from Horonaim,
desolation and great destruction! 48:4Moab is destroyed; her little ones
have caused a cry to be heard. 48:5For by the ascent of Luhith with
continual weeping shall they go up; for at the descent of Horonaim they
have heard the distress of the cry of destruction. 48:6Flee, save your
lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness. 48:7For, because
thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, thou also shalt be
taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity, his priests and his
princes together. 48:8And the destroyer shall come upon
every city, and no city shall escape; the valley also shall perish, and
the plain shall be destroyed; as Jehovah hath spoken. 48:9Give wings unto
Moab, that she may fly and get her away: and her cities shall become a
desolation, without any to dwell therein. 48:10Cursed be he that doeth the work of
Jehovah negligently; and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from
blood. 48:11Moab hath been at ease from his
youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied from
vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste
remaineth in him, and his scent is not changed. 48:12Therefore,
behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will send unto him them that
pour off, and they shall pour him off; and they shall empty his vessels,
and break their bottles in pieces. 48:13And Moab shall be ashamed of
Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Beth-el their confidence.
48:14How say
ye, We are mighty men, and valiant men for the war? 48:15Moab is laid
waste, and they are gone up into his cities, and his chosen young men are
gone down to the slaughter, saith the King, whose name is Jehovah of
hosts. 48:16The calamity of Moab is near to
come, and his affliction hasteth fast. 48:17All ye that are round about him,
bemoan him, and all ye that know his name; say, How is the strong staff
broken, the beautiful rod! 48:18O thou daughter that dwellest in
Dibon, come down from thy glory, and sit in thirst; for the destroyer of
Moab is come up against thee, he hath destroyed thy strongholds. 48:19O inhabitant
of Aroer, stand by the way, and watch: ask him that fleeth, and her that
escapeth; say, What hath been done? 48:20Moab is put to shame; for it is
broken down: wail and cry; tell ye it by the Arnon, that Moab is laid
waste. 48:21And judgment is come upon the plain
country, upon Holon, and upon Jahzah, and upon Mephaath, 48:22and upon
Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Beth-diblathaim, 48:23and upon
Kiriathaim, and upon Beth-gamul, and upon Beth-meon, 48:24and upon
Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, far
or near. 48:25The horn of Moab is cut off, and his
arm is broken, saith Jehovah. 48:26Make ye him drunken; for he
magnified himself against Jehovah: and Moab shall wallow in his vomit, and
he also shall be in derision. 48:27For was not Israel a derision unto
thee? was he found among thieves? for as often as thou speakest of him,
thou waggest the head. 48:28O ye inhabitants of Moab, leave the
cities, and dwell in the rock; and be like the dove that maketh her nest
over the mouth of the abyss. 48:29We have heard of the pride of Moab,
that he is very proud; his loftiness, and his pride, and his
arrogancy, and the haughtiness of his heart. 48:30I know his wrath, saith Jehovah,
that it is nought; his boastings have wrought nothing. 48:31Therefore will
I wail for Moab; yea, I will cry out for all Moab: for the men of
Kir-heres shall they mourn. 48:32With more than the weeping of Jazer
will I weep for thee, O vine of Sibmah: thy branches passed over the sea,
they reached even to the sea of Jazer: upon thy summer fruits and upon thy
vintage the destroyer is fallen. 48:33And gladness and joy is taken away
from the fruitful field and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine
to cease from the winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; the
shouting shall be no shouting. 48:34From the cry of Heshbon even unto
Elealeh, even unto Jahaz have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even
unto Horonaim, to Eglath-shelishiyah: for the waters of Nimrim also shall
become desolate. 48:35Moreover I will cause to cease in
Moab, saith Jehovah, him that offereth in the high place, and him that
burneth incense to his gods. 48:36Therefore my heart soundeth for Moab
like pipes, and my heart soundeth like pipes for the men of Kir-heres:
therefore the abundance that he hath gotten is perished. 48:37For every head
is bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands are cuttings, and
upon the loins sackcloth. 48:38On all the housetops of Moab and in
the streets thereof there is lamentation every where; for I have broken
Moab like a vessel wherein none delighteth, saith Jehovah. 48:39How is it
broken down! how do they wail! how hath Moab turned the back with
shame! so shall Moab become a derision and a terror to all that are round
about him. 48:40For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, he
shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread out his wings against Moab. 48:41Kerioth is
taken, and the strongholds are seized, and the heart of the mighty men of
Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs. 48:42And Moab shall
be destroyed from being a people, because he hath magnified himself
against Jehovah. 48:43Fear, and the pit, and the snare,
are upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith Jehovah. 48:44He that fleeth
from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that getteth up out of the
pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon him, even upon
Moab, the year of their visitation, saith Jehovah. 48:45They that fled
stand without strength under the shadow of Heshbon; for a fire is gone
forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and hath
devoured the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous
ones. 48:46Woe unto thee, O Moab! the people of
Chemosh is undone; for thy sons are taken away captive, and thy daughters
into captivity. 48:47Yet will I bring back the captivity
of Moab in the latter days, saith Jehovah. Thus far is the judgment of
Moab.

49:1Of the
children of Ammon. Thus saith Jehovah: Hath Israel no sons? hath he no
heir? why then doth Malcam possess Gad, and his people well in the cities
thereof? 49:2Therefore, behold, the days come,
saith Jehovah, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard against
Rabbah of the children of Ammon; and it shall become a desolate heap, and
her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel possess them
that did possess him, saith Jehovah. 49:3Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai is laid
waste; cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth: lament, and
run to and fro among the fences; for Malcam shall go into captivity, his
priests and his princes together. 49:4Wherefore gloriest thou in the
valleys, thy flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? that trusted in her
treasures, saying, Who shall come unto me? 49:5Behold, I will
bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, from all that
are round about thee; and ye shall be driven out every man right forth,
and there shall be none to gather together the fugitives. 49:6But afterward I
will bring back the captivity of the children of Ammon, saith Jehovah.
49:7Of Edom.
Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel
perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished? 49:8Flee ye, turn
back, dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the
calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I shall visit him. 49:9If
grape-gatherers came to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes?
if thieves by night, would they not destroy till they had enough? 49:10But I have
made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be
able to hide himself: his seed is destroyed, and his brethren, and his
neighbors; and he is not. 49:11Leave thy fatherless children, I
will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me. 49:12For thus saith
Jehovah: Behold, they to whom it pertained not to drink of the cup shall
assuredly drink; and art thou he that shall altogether go unpunished? thou
shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink. 49:13For I have
sworn by myself, saith Jehovah, that Bozrah shall become an astonishment,
a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be
perpetual wastes. 49:14I have heard tidings from Jehovah,
and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, Gather
yourselves together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle.
49:15For,
behold, I have made thee small among the nations, and despised among men.
49:16As for
thy terribleness, the pride of thy heart hath deceived thee, O thou that
dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill:
though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring
thee down from thence, saith Jehovah. 49:17And Edom shall become an
astonishment: every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall
hiss at all the plagues thereof. 49:18As in the overthrow of Sodom and
Gomorrah and the neighbor cities thereof, saith Jehovah, no man shall
dwell there, neither shall any son of man sojourn therein. 49:19Behold, he
shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong
habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoso is
chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like me? and who will
appoint me a time? and who is the shepherd that will stand before me?
49:20Therefore hear ye the counsel of
Jehovah, that he hath taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath
purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely they shall drag them
away, even the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make their
habitation desolate over them. 49:21The earth trembleth at the noise of
their fall; there is a cry, the noise whereof is heard in the Red Sea.
49:22Behold,
he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread out his wings against
Bozrah: and the heart of the mighty men of Edom at that day shall be as
the heart of a woman in her pangs. 49:23Of Damascus. Hamath is confounded,
and Arpad; for they have heard evil tidings, they are melted away: there
is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet. 49:24Damascus is waxed feeble, she
turneth herself to flee, and trembling hath seized on her: anguish and
sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail. 49:25How is the
city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy? 49:26Therefore her
young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be
brought to silence in that day, saith Jehovah of hosts. 49:27And I will
kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall devour the palaces of
Ben-hadad. 49:28Of Kedar, and of the kingdoms of
Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote. Thus saith Jehovah:
Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and destroy the children of the east. 49:29Their tents
and their flocks shall they take; they shall carry away for themselves
their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall
cry unto them, Terror on every side! 49:30Flee ye, wander far off, dwell in
the depths, O ye inhabitants of Hazor, saith Jehovah; for Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon hath taken counsel against you, and hath conceived a
purpose against you. 49:31Arise, get you up unto a nation that
is at ease, that dwelleth without care, saith Jehovah; that have neither
gates nor bars, that dwell alone. 49:32And their camels shall be a booty,
and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter unto all
winds them that have the corners of their hair cut off; and I will
bring their calamity from every side of them, saith Jehovah. 49:33And Hazor
shall be a dwelling-place of jackals, a desolation for ever: no man shall
dwell there, neither shall any son of man sojourn therein. 49:34The word of
Jehovah that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, in the
beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying, 49:35Thus saith
Jehovah of hosts: Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their
might. 49:36And upon Elam will I bring the four
winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all
those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam
shall not come. 49:37And I will cause Elam to be dismayed
before their enemies, and before them that seek their life; and I will
bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger, saith Jehovah; and I will send
the sword after them, till I have consumed them; 49:38and I will set
my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence king and princes, saith
Jehovah. 49:39But it shall come to pass in the
latter days, that I will bring back the captivity of Elam, saith Jehovah.

50:1The
word that Jehovah spake concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the
Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet. 50:2Declare ye among the nations and
publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is
taken, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is dismayed; her images are put to
shame, her idols are dismayed. 50:3For out of the north there cometh up
a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall
dwell therein: they are fled, they are gone, both man and beast. 50:4In those days,
and in that time, saith Jehovah, the children of Israel shall come, they
and the children of Judah together; they shall go on their way weeping,
and shall seek Jehovah their God. 50:5They shall inquire concerning Zion
with their faces thitherward, saying, Come ye, and join yourselves
to Jehovah in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten. 50:6My people have
been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray; they have
turned them away on the mountains; they have gone from mountain to hill;
they have forgotten their resting-place. 50:7All that found them have devoured
them; and their adversaries said, We are not guilty, because they have
sinned against Jehovah, the habitation of righteousness, even Jehovah, the
hope of their fathers. 50:8Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and
go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he-goats before
the flocks. 50:9For, lo, I will stir up and cause to
come up against Babylon a company of great nations from the north country;
and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall
be taken: their arrows shall be as of an expert mighty man; none shall
return in vain. 50:10And Chaldea shall be a prey: all
that prey upon her shall be satisfied, saith Jehovah. 50:11Because ye are
glad, because ye rejoice, O ye that plunder my heritage, because ye are
wanton as a heifer that treadeth out the grain, and neigh as strong
horses; 50:12your mother shall be utterly put to
shame; she that bare you shall be confounded: behold, she shall be the
hindermost of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert. 50:13Because of the
wrath of Jehovah she shall not be inhabited, but she shall be wholly
desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at
all her plagues. 50:14Set yourselves in array against
Babylon round about, all ye that bend the bow; shoot at her, spare no
arrows: for she hath sinned against Jehovah. 50:15Shout against her round about: she
hath submitted herself; her bulwarks are fallen, her walls are thrown
down; for it is the vengeance of Jehovah: take vengeance upon her; as she
hath done, do unto her. 50:16Cut off the sower from Babylon, and
him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the
oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall
flee every one to his own land. 50:17Israel is a hunted sheep; the lions
have driven him away: first, the king of Assyria devoured him; and now at
last Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones. 50:18Therefore thus
saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will punish the king
of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria. 50:19And I will
bring Israel again to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan,
and his soul shall be satisfied upon the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead.
50:20In those
days, and in that time, saith Jehovah, the iniquity of Israel shall be
sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall
not be found: for I will pardon them whom I leave as a remnant. 50:21Go up against
the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of
Pekod: slay and utterly destroy after them, saith Jehovah, and do
according to all that I have commanded thee. 50:22A sound of battle is in the land,
and of great destruction. 50:23How is the hammer of the whole earth
cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the
nations! 50:24I have laid a snare for thee, and
thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found,
and also caught, because thou hast striven against Jehovah. 50:25Jehovah hath
opened his armory, and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation;
for the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, hath a work to do in the land of
the Chaldeans. 50:26Come against her from the utmost
border; open her store-houses; cast her up as heaps, and destroy her
utterly; let nothing of her be left. 50:27Slay all her bullocks; let them go
down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of
their visitation. 50:28The voice of them that flee and
escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of
Jehovah our God, the vengeance of his temple. 50:29Call together the archers against
Babylon, all them that bend the bow; encamp against her round about; let
none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to
all that she hath done, do unto her; for she hath been proud against
Jehovah, against the Holy One of Israel. 50:30Therefore shall her young men fall
in her streets, and all her men of war shall be brought to silence in that
day, saith Jehovah. 50:31Behold, I am against thee, O thou
proud one, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts; for thy day is come, the time
that I will visit thee. 50:32And the proud one shall stumble and
fall, and none shall raise him up; and I will kindle a fire in his cities,
and it shall devour all that are round about him. 50:33Thus saith
Jehovah of hosts: The children of Israel and the children of Judah are
oppressed together; and all that took them captive hold them fast; they
refuse to let them go. 50:34Their Redeemer is strong; Jehovah of
hosts is his name: he will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give
rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon. 50:35A sword is
upon the Chaldeans, saith Jehovah, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon,
and upon her princes, and upon her wise men. 50:36A sword is upon the boasters, and
they shall become fools; a sword is upon her mighty men, and they shall be
dismayed. 50:37A sword is upon their horses, and
upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst
of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures, and
they shall be robbed. 50:38A drought is upon her waters, and
they shall be dried up; for it is a land of graven images, and they are
mad over idols. 50:39Therefore the wild beasts of the
desert with the wolves shall dwell there, and the ostriches shall dwell
therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be
dwelt in from generation to generation. 50:40As when God overthrew Sodom and
Gomorrah and the neighbor cities thereof, saith Jehovah, so shall no man
dwell there, neither shall any son of man sojourn therein. 50:41Behold, a
people cometh from the north; and a great nation and many kings shall be
stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth. 50:42They lay hold
on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth
like the sea; and they ride upon horses, every one set in array, as a man
to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon. 50:43The king of
Babylon hath heard the tidings of them, and his hands wax feeble: anguish
hath taken hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail. 50:44Behold, the
enemy shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against
the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and
whoso is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like me? and who
will appoint me a time? and who is the shepherd that can stand before me?
50:45Therefore hear ye the counsel of
Jehovah, that he hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he
hath purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely they shall drag
them away, even the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make
their habitation desolate over them. 50:46At the noise of the taking of
Babylon the earth trembleth, and the cry is heard among the nations.

51:1Thus
saith Jehovah: Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them
that dwell in Leb-kamai, a destroying wind. 51:2And I will send unto Babylon
strangers, that shall winnow her; and they shall empty her land: for in
the day of trouble they shall be against her round about. 51:3Against him
that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that
lifteth himself up in his coat of mail: and spare ye not her young men;
destroy ye utterly all her host. 51:4And they shall fall down slain in the
land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets. 51:5For Israel is
not forsaken, nor Judah, of his God, of Jehovah of hosts; though their
land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel. 51:6Flee out of the
midst of Babylon, and save every man his life; be not cut off in her
iniquity: for it is the time of Jehovah's vengeance; he will render unto
her a recompense. 51:7Babylon hath been a golden cup in
Jehovah's hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunk of
her wine; therefore the nations are mad. 51:8Babylon is suddenly fallen and
destroyed: wail for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be
healed. 51:9We would have healed Babylon, but she
is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country;
for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.
51:10Jehovah
hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the
work of Jehovah our God. 51:11Make sharp the arrows; hold firm the
shields: Jehovah hath stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes;
because his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it: for it is the
vengeance of Jehovah, the vengeance of his temple. 51:12Set up a
standard against the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set the
watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for Jehovah hath both purposed and done
that which he spake concerning the inhabitants of Babylon. 51:13O thou that
dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, the
measure of thy covetousness. 51:14Jehovah of hosts hath sworn by
himself, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with the
canker-worm; and they shall lift up a shout against thee. 51:15He hath made
the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and
by his understanding hath he stretched out the heavens: 51:16when he
uttereth his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he
causeth the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh
lightnings for the rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his
treasuries. 51:17Every man is become brutish and
is without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his image;
for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. 51:18They are
vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall
perish. 51:19The portion of Jacob is not like
these; for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the tribe
of his inheritance: Jehovah of hosts is his name. 51:20Thou art my
battle-axe and weapons of war: and with thee will I break in pieces the
nations; and with thee will I destroy kingdoms; 51:21and with thee
will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; 51:22and with thee
will I break in pieces the chariot and him that rideth therein; and with
thee will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in
pieces the old man and the youth; and with thee will I break in pieces the
young man and the virgin; 51:23and with thee will I break in pieces
the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the
husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in
pieces governors and deputies. 51:24And I will render unto Babylon and
to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in
Zion in your sight, saith Jehovah. 51:25Behold, I am against thee, O
destroying mountain, saith Jehovah, which destroyest all the earth; and I
will stretch out my hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and
will make thee a burnt mountain. 51:26And they shall not take of thee a
stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be
desolate for ever, saith Jehovah. 51:27Set ye up a standard in the land,
blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call
together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz: appoint
a marshal against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough
canker-worm. 51:28Prepare against her the nations, the
kings of the Medes, the governors thereof, and all the deputies thereof,
and all the land of their dominion. 51:29And the land trembleth and is in
pain; for the purposes of Jehovah against Babylon do stand, to make the
land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant. 51:30The mighty men
of Babylon have forborne to fight, they remain in their strongholds; their
might hath failed; they are become as women: her dwelling-places are set
on fire; her bars are broken. 51:31One post shall run to meet another,
and one messenger to met another, to show the king of Babylon that his
city is taken on every quarter: 51:32and the passages are seized, and the
reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted. 51:33For thus saith
Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a
threshing-floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while, and
the time of harvest shall come for her. 51:34Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon
hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he
hath, like a monster, swallowed me up, he hath filled his maw with my
delicacies; he hath cast me out. 51:35The violence done to me and to my
flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and, My blood be
upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say. 51:36Therefore thus
saith Jehovah: Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for
thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry. 51:37And Babylon
shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a
hissing, without inhabitant. 51:38They shall roar together like young
lions; they shall growl as lions' whelps. 51:39When they are heated, I will make
their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and
sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith Jehovah. 51:40I will bring
them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats. 51:41How is
Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon
become a desolation among the nations! 51:42The sea is come up upon Babylon; she
is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof. 51:43Her cities are
become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land wherein no man
dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby. 51:44And I will
execute judgment upon Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his
mouth that which he hath swallowed up; and the nations shall not flow any
more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall. 51:45My people, go
ye out of the midst of her, and save yourselves every man from the fierce
anger of Jehovah. 51:46And let not your heart faint,
neither fear ye for the tidings that shall be heard in the land; for
tidings shall come one year, and after that in another year shall
come tidings, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler. 51:47Therefore,
behold, the days come, that I will execute judgment upon the graven images
of Babylon; and her whole land shall be confounded; and all her slain
shall fall in the midst of her. 51:48Then the heavens and the earth, and
all that is therein, shall sing for joy over Babylon; for the destroyers
shall come unto her from the north, saith Jehovah. 51:49As Babylon
hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the
slain of all the land. 51:50Ye that have escaped the sword, go
ye, stand not still; remember Jehovah from afar, and let Jerusalem come
into your mind. 51:51We are confounded, because we have
heard reproach; confusion hath covered our faces: for strangers are come
into the sanctuaries of Jehovah's house. 51:52Wherefore, behold, the days come,
saith Jehovah, that I will execute judgment upon her graven images; and
through all her land the wounded shall groan. 51:53Though Babylon should mount up to
heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from
me shall destroyers come unto her, saith Jehovah. 51:54The sound of a
cry from Babylon, and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
51:55For
Jehovah layeth Babylon waste, and destroyeth out of her the great voice;
and their waves roar like many waters; the noise of their voice is
uttered: 51:56for the destroyer is come upon her,
even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, their bows are broken in
pieces; for Jehovah is a God of recompenses, he will surely requite. 51:57And I will
make drunk her princes and her wise men, her governors and her deputies,
and her mighty men; and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake,
saith the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts. 51:58Thus saith
Jehovah of hosts: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly overthrown,
and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the peoples shall labor
for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they shall be weary. 51:59The word which
Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of
Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the
fourth year of his reign. Now Seraiah was chief chamberlain. 51:60And Jeremiah
wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these
words that are written concerning Babylon. 51:61And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When
thou comest to Babylon, then see that thou read all these words, 51:62and say, O
Jehovah, thou hast spoken concerning this place, to cut it off, that none
shall dwell therein, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate
for ever. 51:63And it shall be, when thou hast made
an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast
it into the midst of the Euphrates: 51:64and thou shalt say, Thus shall
Babylon sink, and shall not rise again because of the evil that I will
bring upon her; and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of
Jeremiah.

52:1Zedekiah was one and twenty years old
when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his
mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. 52:2And he did that
which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that Jehoiakim
had done. 52:3For through the anger of Jehovah did
it come to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from
his presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. 52:4And it came to
pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day
of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his
army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts
against it round about. 52:5So the city was besieged unto the
eleventh year of king Zedekiah. 52:6In the fourth month, in the ninth day
of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread
for the people of the land. 52:7Then a breach was made in the city,
and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by
the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden;
(now the Chaldeans were against the city round about;) and they went
toward the Arabah. 52:8But the army of the Chaldeans pursued
after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all
his army was scattered from him. 52:9Then they took the king, and carried
him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he
gave judgment upon him. 52:10And the king of Babylon slew the
sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in
Riblah. 52:11And he put out the eyes of Zedekiah;
and the king of Babylon bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon,
and put him in prison till the day of his death. 52:12Now in the
fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year
of king Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan the captain of
the guard, who stood before the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem: 52:13and he burned
the house of Jehovah, and the king's house; and all the houses of
Jerusalem, even every great house, burned he with fire. 52:14And all the
army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down
all the walls of Jerusalem round about. 52:15Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the
guard carried away captive of the poorest of the people, and the residue
of the people that were left in the city, and those that fell away, that
fell to the king of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude. 52:16But
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be
vinedressers and husbandmen. 52:17And the pillars of brass that were
in the house of Jehovah, and the bases and the brazen sea that were in the
house of Jehovah, did the Chaldeans break in pieces, and carried all the
brass of them to Babylon. 52:18The pots also, and the shovels, and
the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass
wherewith they ministered, took they away. 52:19And the cups, and the firepans, and
the basins, and the pots, and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the
bowls-that which was of gold, in gold, and that which was of silver, in
silver,- the captain of the guard took away. 52:20The two pillars, the one sea, and
the twelve brazen bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had
made for the house of Jehovah-the brass of all these vessels was without
weight. 52:21And as for the pillars, the height
of the one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a line of twelve cubits did
compass it; and the thickness thereof was four fingers: it was hollow.
52:22And a
capital of brass was upon it; and the height of the one capital was five
cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the capital round about, all of
brass: and the second pillar also had like unto these, and pomegranates.
52:23And
there were ninety and six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates
were a hundred upon the network round about. 52:24And the captain of the guard took
Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three
keepers of the threshold: 52:25and out of the city he took an
officer that was set over the men of war; and seven men of them that saw
the king's face, that were found in the city; and the scribe of the
captain of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and threescore
men of the people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city.
52:26And
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the
king of Babylon to Riblah. 52:27And the king of Babylon smote them,
and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was
carried away captive out of his land. 52:28This is the people whom
Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand
Jews and three and twenty; 52:29in the eighteenth year of
Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty
and two persons; 52:30in the three and twentieth year of
Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive
of the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons: all the persons were
four thousand and six hundred. 52:31And it came to pass in the seven and
thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the
twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that
Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign,
lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out
of prison; 52:32and he spake kindly to him, and set
his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon,
52:33and
changed his prison garments. And Jehoiachin did eat bread before
him continually all the days of his life: 52:34and for his allowance, there was a
continual allowance given him by the king of Babylon, every day a portion
until the day of his death, all the days of his life.